Once I was working as in-house turner for the Vermont woodworking and ceramic artisans ShackletonThomas, I made scores of dishes and platters in cherry and walnut. They have been easy types with a single bead on the rim. I at all times admired the class and utility of these designs, and this serving dish is impressed by them. Right here I’ve used bubinga, selecting it for its hardness, sturdiness, and—with this explicit inventory—for its marvelous quilting, chatoyant grain, and good pure coloration. This isn’t a posh piece to show, however to make it actually sing, the surfaces needs to be tremendous clear and the transitions and particulars extraordinarily crisp.
Facet one
Start by bandsawing a round clean between 9 in. and 11 in. throughout. Then screw a faceplate to what would be the high of the dish. The screws ought to protrude from the faceplate not less than 1/8 in. lower than the depth of the dish’s hole. Right here I added a spacer beneath the faceplate to compensate for the size of the screws I had available. After mounting the clean on the lathe, true up the perimeter and flatten each faces.
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With the underside of the dish going through out, your subsequent transfer might be to put out the ring-shaped foot. Measure the span of your four-jaw chuck with dividers and switch that dimension to the clean; it will likely be the within diameter of the foot. Use a pencil to mark the surface diameter of the foot. It needs to be 1/2 in. to 1 in. better than the foot’s inside diameter. On the sting of the clean, make a pencil mark 1/4 in. from the entrance face; the fabric beneath this line might be eliminated as you flip the ogee-curved underside of the dish.
With a bowl gouge, roughly form the underside face of the dish, utilizing push and pull cuts between the foot and the rim. Earlier than making the ending cuts on the softly sweeping ogee curve, use a square-end scraper to create the recess contained in the foot for the four-jaw chuck. A depth of 1/8 in. is enough. Clear up the ogee curve and minimize any nice element you want on or contained in the foot. Then apply end to the underside face of the dish.
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Facet two
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After unscrewing the faceplate, remount the workpiece on the four-jaw chuck. Start work on the higher face of the serving dish by truing the entire floor once more. Then make a push minimize from the perimeter inward to ascertain the broad flat band simply contained in the rim. Roll a small bead proper on the rim with a bowl gouge, then flatten the rim band with a convex square-end scraper.
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Lastly, utilizing a 60° inside gouge, start hollowing the dish. Begin on the middle and work your method outward, making your hollowing cuts simply barely deeper than the screw holes for the faceplate. After finishing the hole, wet-sand the higher face with mineral oil, working by the grits from 220 to 600, after which, lastly, buff with carnauba wax.
—Matt Monaco turns at residence in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., and teaches turning throughout the nation.
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