Segmented Walnut and Maple Bowl

This video is of a wood turned segmented walnut and maple bowl inspired by traditional tapa cloth patterning. I did this video all with a stop motion technique trying to remove myself from the story in order to make the materials, process, and product the stars of the show.

[@rustyul]

I've seen hundreds, if not thousands of KZbin videos. Most I play on 2X speed because it seems people really want other people to hear them ramble on with nonsense for extended periods of time. I've made a few segmented bowls, I know how the process works, I clicked on the video thinking it would be another well-done video that interested me. What I found instead was a masterpiece and I enjoyed soaking in every single second. I don't think I've seen a better made video on KZbin. Thank you for taking the time to produce this! I enjoyed it very much!

[@frankmakes]

Thank you.

[@nordenconrad14yearsago45]

+frank howarth how much time have you spent make the video?..lol

[@yousufsyed844]

I could not agree more

[@Ack5100]

You are truly an artist! Please continue to role the videos out. I've learned so much! I love turning bowls.

[@speedmouse100]

Wow, gorgeous bowl and I can appreciate the incredible amount of obvious editing time spent. Reminded me of the old Gumby and Pokey animations. Thanks for sharing.

[@MikeWaldt]

I am lost for words Frank, not something that usually happens to me! The video was a stunning piece of work, as was the bowl. Thanks for the entertainment, and the superhuman effort that you put into your presentations. Take care Mike

[@miniwizard]

Simply stunning. I am amazed at the amount of work put into the prodution of the video of the production of the bowl. Without a doubt one of KZbins finest videos. Kudos!

[@marenrjensen]

This is one of the most wonderful videos I've ever seen on KZbin. The craftsmanship of the bowl, the video editing, and the wonderful cello accompaniment just blows me away. Well done!

[@ddelker]

Fascinating video, Frank! The stop-motion process was a great way to make the segmented woodturning process make sense!

[@frycz66]

Wspaniałe!! :)) Dużo dobrej pięknej pracy!!

[@housephone8646]

Thank you Frank your videos are so cool

[@otties1]

I never comment on a video but this one is just awesome video is an a+ and the bowl even better thanks otto in the netherlands

[@ErikAnderson1]

Frank you are a cinematic and woodworking genius!!! I bow in your presence as a humble apprentice and would love to visit you and your wonderful shop some day. Where are you located?

[@acy48]

This is Art! This video must have been a lot of work, but it turned out really awesome:)

[@adrianwadley938]

Stunningly well put together video and hugely entertaining. Love the walking clamps. A really nice touch. Tried to track down what sort of clamps they are, and where you can buy them. Couldn't find them. If you know exactly what type of clamp they are please post in comments below. They look like a must-have for the shop. Thanks!

[@joreknight]

That's a kant twist clamp

[@ashoksomvanshi9871]

Hallo, Very beautiful your work is.admirable.

[@tashpaug]

That was an awesome feat of both videography and wood working. I have watched several off you videos and have been impressed. Great work on both fronts. I you don't mind telling what editing software you use I would love to know. Tony

[@headlikeorange3600]

Do you know that Reddit is basically in love with you? I just discovered your stuff on there and I have to say, sir, you are incredible! Please never stop :D

[@AndrewBlackwell]

Hi Frank. Great video, really inspiring. I was wondering what glue you used to glue the segments together. Thanks Andrew

[@TheElTiticaca]

Probably just standard yellow glue.

[@Serostern]

TheElTiticaca I can't find that stuff in sweden, all wood glue is white...

[@finn127]

Seroster Hei! Du får tak i gul lim i Norge, i Drammen, www.gustavsenas.no/ sikkert flere steder også. I haven't found any Titebond in any stores in Norway either. You'll have to online ;) Finn

[@sotocine99]

Toll!

[@simontan4249]

wow!

[@unpicked1]

If you simply made a video of yourself making the bowl, the video would have been awesome. The fact that you made a stopmotion animated video of yourself making this bowl puts this video far beyond awesome. It's epic awesome!!, LOL

[@frankmakes]

The cellist is my wife, and I think she's awesome.

[@jaxwoodworkers]

This has got to be one of the best woodworking KZbin videos I have ever seen - great job.

[@frankmakes]

Thanks!

[@EdgarVenomous]

I'm obsessed with your videos!!! incredible sense of aesthetics. You have a new fan and subscriber!!!

[@edcr2959]

I don't even have a workshop, not even skills for this but I love these videos.

[@gordroberts53]

Mesmerizing video! Really like the bowl too. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Gord

[@frankmakes]

+Gord Roberts Thanks

[@frankmakes]

+Gord Roberts Thanks

[@hermit3400]

Making that bowl was simply incredible but creating that stop motion video is absolutely freaking amazing!! How far did you move the subjects between each exposure. Are you a film professional who does woodworking as a hobby, or a woodworking professional who does video as a hobby? Thanks so much for making the effort to do this video. It blows my mind that one or two people were able to make this amazing work of art. You must put it into a film festival!! It will win awards! The walking clamps are pure genius, and all the sound effects where great too! Do you mind my asking what video editing software you use, and whether you use a Mac or a PC?

[@frankmakes]

Thanks! From a mm to a few feet. I'm glad you can't tell. Premiere on a PC.

[@CaptainSeanTV]

I'm agree with you, this is totally great and I am amazed on how talented you are!

[@pigcatapult]

Your stop motion skills are so charming that I watched the whole thing, despite many of the noises being physically painful for me due to my hyperacusis. This video is beautiful.

[@midierror]

yeah very harsh for me too

[@JensAndree]

WOW! Not only first class woodworking, but also first class stop-motion animation! Thank you people who actually make the effort of producing GREAT youtube content

[@lindendrechsler6003]

Hi Frank - did you ever hear about the brownies of cologne? The helped the people during the night, now one saw them ever. They did everything: Baking, butchering, winering, talors stuff, builder and so on and so on. But one night the nosy wife of the taylor dropps peas all over the stairs. When the brownies came into the house during the night, quiet like usual the suddenly slipped on the pies and all fall down the stairs! The nosy woman jumped up from her bed, grapped a candle an rushed out to see what would going on. And she saw all the brownies - but the brownies disapeared and never showed up again. From this night on, everybody has to do his work by his own again. At least we know where they have gone - they are in your workshop now, healthy and safe, no stairs, no peas, just what they love most - wood :-)

[@frankmakes]

I have not, Nice story. Growing up in Hawaii we had the menehune.

[@JohnHeisz]

Cool video and it must have taken some serious time to do. Funny though, at any moment I expected Pingu to show up!

[@frankmakes]

I did not realize how much video and photography work I was going to be doing when I put the lights in the shop, I got 3500k bulbs so with the amount of day light changing all day and night, on some shots I don't get the white balance quit right, then I have too many short clips to fix every one manually so I do an auto correct in post and it varies as the colors in the scene change. I need to change all my bulbs to something closer to daylight.

[@frankmakes]

Thank you for the complements. I don't know specifically in CA. There is a huge wealth of info on line now. And there must be wood working groups and conventions in your area. If I can push any advice it would be to learn what is safe and what is not safe. and start with small projects you can finish and feel good about, which will get you on to the next project.

[@frankmakes]

13 thousand(+-) photographs put together in a variety of ways. most at 15 fps some at 30 fps and stills images interspersed at appropriate points. I kept thinking I need to be filming me doing this so I could do a behind the scene video, but that would have been 3 projects at the same time.

[@frankmakes]

Thanks! Yes, what happed to that piece was not so clear, it was the bottom. It's hard to get all the triangles to come together nicely. I held them back and left a hole. Then drilled out that hole to make a perfect round hole I could plug. It worked better than I had thought it would.

[@frankmakes]

I guess I've learned on a saw without a guard and that is what I am comfortable will. I can see the value of a splitter, but I have not figured out how to get one on my older saws. I would want everyone to be as save as they can be. On a positive note a have made a guard for the jointer.

[@frankmakes]

This was about two weeks. I would guess if I just did the project it would have been 2 or 3 days. The scene where the clamps come off, took 3 hours. I realized a lunch that day I had spent all morning un clamping a piece of wood.

[@tappakeggaday1]

I'm wondering why 44 people didn't like this? this was a VERY interesting video and well done at that. I'm gonna have to give it a thumbs up just to put the haters in their place lol.

[@jimstools3937]

Because there stupid. They should have a hall of fame for people like FRANK. The 44 people that had their thumbs down have no talent. Ignore them.

[@cooldude2847]

probably the awful cello playing

[@frankmakes]

That was the very last thing I had to do to the bowl and I did not want it coming off the chuck, I was just being very careful. A scraper wood leave a cleaner bottom, and would have been just fine.

[@frankmakes]

That was the very last thing I had to do to the bowl and I did not want it coming off the chuck, I was just being very careful. A scraper wood leave a cleaner bottom, and would have been just fine.

[@frankmakes]

I have done a lot of computer animation for work, architectural fly around kind of stuff. About 13k frames, and I worked on it for about 2 weeks.

[@frankmakes]

Yes one catch on the lathe and it's a movie about failure. I did not turn this bowl as thin as I would have liked to just for that reason.

[@frankmakes]

It's watertight, but I don't know that I would use it in that way. I made this one to give as a birthday present.

[@fhscavalcante]

I've been watching woodturning videos for about 2 years now, but you have, by a long shot, the most creative way to do videos. It's amazing, I'm watching with my jaw dropped at how much work and dedication this takes. Congratulations, the world needs more people like you.

[@frankmakes]

ha ha. I have thought about a video about the clamps going around making stuff. That would take a long time.

[@frankmakes]

36 inches. if you look through my channel there is a video I did recently on just the bandsaw.

[@frankmakes]

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[@curtpratt8460]

bravo - bravo ( standing ) clap,clap,clap, clap,clap,clap,clap,clap,clap outstanding…!!!!! bravo,bravo…..

[@MrKozure]

I was waiting for wallace and gromit to pop up in the video, lol. Really nice video.

[@frankmakes]

thanks

[@DigitalNoomad]

frank howarth Do you sell any of your work?

[@frankmakes]

I have a cannon 5d and 20d. I use premiere to put all the frames together.

[@Ivan_Baev_45]

Ничего подобного не видел.Занимательно и,что самое главное,поучительно.

[@xBeauGaming]

This was incredible. Wonderful camera work, and I was super impressed by how lovely the grain was displayed on the piece. 10/10 man....Wonderous

[@frankmakes]

Thanks! my wife on the cello - Antonio Vivaldi Sonata No. 5 Allegro

[@hallazgos.9326]

Hi frank.. would it be awesome if you make the pattern move while it spins a simple animation into the bowl those windmill like shapes spining ...just an idea a tricky one...keep up the good work...a woodworking fan from chile

[@frankmakes]

Humm.. interesting idea, I like it

[@frankmakes]

I would check out the Design in wood exhibition in San Diego.

[@philippglaser2643]

Indeed as commented by Scott, THE best woodworking video I have seen so far. I cannot judge the level of workmanship, but combined with the music and animations (awesome, how the character of those clamps comes out) this video even amazed my girlfriend, who has no interest at all in woodworking. thanks Frank!

[@RandomTorok]

I'm wondering what part you enjoy most? The woodworking or the video making. LOL Love all your work.

[@frankmakes]

Thanks! both

[@frankmakes]

I've always liked that piece too. I think it's called Luxo

[@JayBates]

Wow. That was awesome. Great way to start a Sunday!

[@SelenaC_anime]

I have a whole new respect for stop motion now.

[@aceofspades6161]

gosh, i feel like I'm spamming you with all these comments about the stop motion animation, but this is definitely my favorite one. i especially love watching the clamps walk across the bench.

[@SilenceDogood76]

The shop began to learn at a geometric rate. It became self-aware at 2:14 AM, Western time, April 21, 2013. In a panic, Frank tried to pull the plug.

[@frankmakes]

Less wood than turning a half section of a tree

[@frankmakes]

Glad you like it. it was a lot of fun to make.

[@frankmakes]

Awesome! stay safe and have patients.

[@LukeLibertyNoRulers]

Well thanks a lot but I don't have a ghost army to do my wood working for me I need to do it myself! Thumbs down!

[@michaelmakarevich601]

Frank, this video blew my mind. I was answering a question on my video and you video came right after automatically, so I was still in the comment section listening to the unusual music and sounds and when done I looked up and that is when my jaw dropped to the floor!! :))) Bravo! Your one talent supercharded another and the end product is .... no words yet, sorry:)))

[@CosmasBauer]

Simply beautiful! and the video editing is so amazing! I can't even imagine how much effort this must be! From all your tools I like those elephant clamps the best!

[@cademoses857]

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[@lukasmaxim8965]

@Cade Moses Yup, I have been using instaflixxer for months myself =)

[@jamalconor4225]

@Cade Moses Yup, I've been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)

[@JasonEllisBuilds]

What would you say the total time in this bowl is? (if you did it without all the filming.. heh)

[@frankmakes]

definitely more time consuming

[@frankmakes]

Antonio Vivaldi Sonata No. 5 Allegro

[@frankmakes]

I think this took three weeks

[@frankmakes]

do a gis for "tapa cloth"

[@frankmakes]

Antonio Vivaldi Sonata No. 5 Allegro

[@frankmakes]

Antonio Vivaldi Sonata No. 5 Allegro

[@areannaquintessa]

Great job on both the project piece and the stop motion :D. thank you for the vid

[@frankmakes]

thanks! about 2 weeks

[@frankmakes]

Thanks. 2 weeks.

[@frankmakes]

my wife, Bonnie

[@TylersArtShack]

This brought me back to my days of senior year of highschool. I spent hours in the woodshop every day creating bowls just as intricate as this. Some bowls would have well over a few hundred pieces of wood. My teacher was awesome and he was a fan of exotic wood such as purple heart, tiger striped maple, pedauk, zebra wood, walnut, ebony, and quite a few others. I still have all of them and I wish I had the machinery to continue. Awesome video!

[@frankmakes]

Thanks, the lighting in the shop is reasonably even. I do the exposure manually for each shot, then it won't flicker as much between frames. I do a little adjusting in post.

[@builtbyWikander]

Just discovered your channel. Amazed. After seeing this, I feel like I want to raise from my seat and applaud, lika after a great theater performance.

[@frankmakes]

Thanks, true

[@shadowfox929]

Frank, I just stumbled across your channel today and subscribed immediately. Not only is this bowl a work of art but the editing of the video kept me spell bound. I just started putting up youtube videos and would love to see you explain how you accomplished this animation type video. Thanks for sharing.

[@BlueMacGyver]

My two cents? Nice bowel, and sometimes a silent film (with music) is nice. Tired of hearing myself in my videos for sure :)

[@toraxtornaercanoz4666]

Tamam çok güzel oldu elinize sağlık

[@frankmakes]

ha ha

[@jayhuang7747]

Speechless, I'm not surprised you're from other planet!!!

[@nickmandeville6216]

your videos are of very high quality

[@bafman1969]

since I got into this hobby, it's one year or so that I started looking and enjoying these pieces of art^2 of you Frank, woodworking and lovely stop motion serving smart ideas and design. This bowl (and the chair) comes on top of the preference of my two kids, and they can't wait until your next video... although I have to admit that the CNC with the clouds did not capture their interest... they are mainly fond of the poor-clamp-boy :-)cheers from Italy, Alberto

[@HKrayani]

one of the best video of woodworkin i have ever seen wonderfull piece of art

[@AsWoodTurns]

Great video on two counts: the video and the project. Alan Stratton

[@TheThorpester]

Spectacular! I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting. I produce Music here if you would like anything written? Would be my pleasure.

[@frankmakes]

ha! I have that stuck in my head now.

[@johnsmith-cl7fh]

Wow. The amount of work that would have take to get all that stop motion done is immense. Add in the trickery to keep out of shot, and the humour of the walking clamps and the segments dancing together, not to mention the incredible woodworking skill. Not many people could have done this.

[@midierror]

I love the visuals, the animation is incredible - i really admire the craft in both senses. I have to say the sound effects are too loud and intrusive for me, it makes enjoying the video difficult. Perhaps its the combination of the music too. For my ears they detract from the amazing visuals. Astonishing animation though!

[@MarkBeckettRPT]

I'm recovering at home from a long illness and I find your videos mesmerising. I have no woodworking experience but you've made me want to get a lathe and start turning bowls. Thank you for the informative and entertaining videos.

[@SyberPrepper]

Ah, found Luxo Jr. here KZbin.com/watch?v=Hrnz2pg3YPg. I don't even know where to start to talk about your video. The woodworking is incredible. I thought it was pretty cool when you made the blocks out of the 2 contrasting woods, but I was really surprised how you put that together with the other pieces to create an object to turn into a bowl. The stop motion photography and editing just takes it to a new level. Blown away by your talent, creativity, and patience!

[@chaitanyavedak2412]

this is An AMAZING Film..... Thanks for the Entertainment. Heck.. This could even head for the Oscars.. :D

[@MicahMartinDIY]

Amazing and entertaining! I don't know what's more artistic: your wood work or your filming.

[@jambrit001]

Mindblowing/Outstanding/Jaw Dropping There are not enough superlatives to justify this video. So Inspiring. Thank you.