sycamore bowl

[wider]

sycamore bowl 12x2" finished with butchers block oil. all comments welcome.

[Bryan Milham]

I don't know if it's the way you've turned it or the way you've photographed it, but it certainly looks thicker than the 2" you say it is.

The only critique I can give is the raising top leading to the raised rim around the bowl gives it a slightly UFO shape about it.

[Les Symonds]

A couple of issues....
1) the general finish looks ok, but there's clearly a few tool marks/scratches visible in the first picture, at a bout 9 o'clock
2) I'm really not comfortable with that neck/rim. I feel that a clean-lined bowl like this needs to flow from the rim down into the bowl, with just a sharp edge to delineate the change of direction.
3) It might have been wise to turn away the pith....there's always a stronger possibility of a piece splitting when the pith is left in place.

Les

[wider]

thank you for your comments. it must be the way the photo is Les as I have had another look at the bowl and I cannot see any tool marks as I had power sanded to 600 grit. I know that I had a pit of trouble when reversing it to take the chucking point of it and had rub marks from the pressure pad I use as I don't have a vacuumed chuck and had to hand sand it to get the marks out.
dennis

[bodrighywood]

Close your eyes and run your finger gently over the rim and you will probably feel them. A trick i learned from a blind turner. Tool marks have a habit of showing in certain lights,usually when other turners are looking (DAMHIK) I speak as an expert on leaving tool marks in pieces LOL.

pete

[edbanger]

Dennis

I quite like thick and chunky and a piece like this might not win a turning competition, but I could see someone picking it up to buy.

The top picture certainly looks like tooling marks, my tip would be to get a pair of 3.5 magnification specs and check the work using these if you can't see a mark with them on then no one will spot anything.

I picked this up on a course with Stuart Mortimer and it works for me 

Ed

[steve w]

strange how tool / sanding marks show on pictures - i last week turned an apple vase - it looked great untill i took a picture to show you guys then it looked awfull so wouldnt post it - i think i also need to learn about finishes - lovely bit of wood - hope the pith doesnt split as i do like to see it left on the bowl.