Turning a Spirit Form with Sam Angelo

[@mikenco]

This is a great demo vid for people like me, new to hollowing. Thanks Sam!! :)

[@russellsharp5490]

Great step by step explanation Sam. very many thanks, Russell

[@davidmorgan7522]

Love spalted tamarind! Very nice little hollow form. Thanks for sharing Sam! Take care, Dave

[@ThePapa1947]

Very nice looking and the video was full of great tips. I like the finish a lot. It really fits the wood quite well. Gary

[@wb_finewoodworking]

Another great video Sam. I’m far from being ready to turn one of these but it’s still helpful to see how it’s done. Thanks.

[@alanmullock381]

Great bit of turning Sam👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@adamquincey4371]

Excellent, great video and a beautiful hollow form... Cheers...

[@dtork47]

Very nice Sam, have yet to try that but......very soon! Thanks again....

[@PHIL_S]

Perfect timing as I start only my 2nd hollow form this week - thanks Sam

[@birdiebuster]

Awesome piece of wood wow

[@glencrandall7051]

Very nice vase (?) Sam. It's a pretty piece with the light color and the spalting. Very nice shape. And your production was spot on. The description and drawings of the internal turning was excellent. Excellent narration.Thanks.

[@waterfordrs22]

It’s a hollow form, ASAT.

[@glencrandall7051]

It is until you stick a flower into it. VBG

[@waterfordrs22]

Knock yourself out. David Ellsworth and Pascal Oudet are two turners whose work is worth checking out. They both do a lot of hollow forms. Pascal is quite a bit younger and truly does his own thing. Ellsworth is probably more of a household name in the states and wrote the book on turning hollow spheres.

[@timmillswoodturner.]

Thanks Sam, once again you’ve inspired me to extend myself!

[@ElbowFalls]

😂 The 'My Vessel' drinking game is out of my league. Thank you for the awesome video.

[@cortlandhunt4721]

Great training video Sam 👍🇺🇸

[@todds4101]

Nice job as always, Sam. Hope the move to MT was good? And it's good to see you turning on a Robust, along with being a authorized dealer. Very cool!!!! I purchased an American Beauty through Trent about 1.5 years ago. Amazing machine!!! Take care.

[@MikeB0001]

Great video Sam...thanks. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@wagWAGart]

great job thank you sam and awesome info

[@TheDistur]

Well done!

[@georgeoliver9125]

Starting to turn with a lot of stops for organizational stuff. Like no skews and stuff like that. George

[@mikenco]

Interesting to note your piece stopping rotating a few times in there. I thought it was just my nooby efforts causing that! Interesting too to learn about the "golden" shape rules.

[@geraldshultz4271]

Good instructional video. Thanks Sam. When you started dumping out the saw dust, it just kept coming out. It reminded me of a clown car in a circus they just keep coming out..

[@pawelift]

Hey,Sam. Great video as always, love the multiple angles of certain steps. I was curious, could you tell me what differentiates a spiritform from other hollowforms?

[@samangeloturns]

Thanks that's a great question. The term "spirit form." really doesn't have any great significance other than paying respect to smaller items that we might turn. David Ellsworth talked about spirit forms in his book-I think the title is Ellsworth on Wood Turning, which is a really really great book that goes way beyond hollowing. I think the term spirit form just add a little intrigue to what is being turned anyway thanks for the comment and question , sam

[@anthonycammilleri4479]

Sam, could you please explain what it is that you look for when you use your homemade thickness gauge? I've seen you use it many times and it looks quite helpful, but your motions are too quick for me to pick up how you are referencing it on the wood. Are you looking for a gap change between the wire and the wood as you move it along the wall?

[@georgeoliver9125]

Nice work as always. Moving into the new shop soon? George

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

George, getting cold here. Well the shop is all painted inside-electrical is complete-now I am trimming out windows and putting baseboard on. THEN!!!!! I start moving in. How is you shop. Sam

[@roberthornwoodturner]

You didn't mention you were using a safety drive to start. It was evident when your blank stopped turning when rounding.

[@ronnie100393]

Why did you flip that scraper in the handle rather than turning it over???

[@bd3952]

ronnie100393 probably due to burr. Suspect he wants burr up.

[@PHIL_S]

@@bd3952 I think it is a D-way tool - one end is for inside and the other end is for out side scraping

[@bd3952]

Phil S my point is that, if the scraper has a burr on it, and the tool is just turned over, the burr will be in the opposite direction (presumably from up to down). By flipping the scraper, I assume the burr on the “flipped” side has been created so it is facing the correct direction. For me, I prefer burr up. To the extent the scraper is negative rake, the different top and bottom angles of the tool steel can also be maintained by flipping versus just turning over. I do not know anything about the dway tool, so the mechanics and purpose might be different on dway.

[@waterfordrs22]

The Boxmaster tools are double ended, kind of a two for one kind of thing. As to why you don’t simply flip the tool over- it changes the geometry of the cutting angle. The negative rake scraper has a primary and secondary bevel . It’s intended to cut with the primary bevel. If you simply flip it over to cut in that orientation, it’s not going to work as well, it’s an asymmetric grind.