really nice bowl. CNC or manual lathe?
1 Like
Beautiful job! (Can’t believe that’s your first bowl…it looks like the kind I buy at craft fairs.) 
1 Like
A lathe is a very fun tool. I can and have spent many hours using mine.
A fun thing to try is, spinning metal bowls on them, a small one I made on my lathe.
22 Likes
Whoaaaa.
I guess it probably requires a relatively expensive chunk to start with? I suppose you could catch the shavings and reforge them…
2 Likes
Do you start with a flat disk and then just shape it? (How would you do metal?) 
2 Likes
You got it Jules, it starts as a flat disk.
@jrnelson, you start with a hardwood form you turn on the lathe.
The form for the little bowl was made from Maple. Hold the form in the chuck and place a disk between the form and tail stock.
Not much metal waste at all, just a little to make it round before rolling the rim.
It does not take a big lathe to do metal spinning.
I have a used Nova DVR XP wood lathe, I bought from Northwest Washington Woodturners Club.
a short video and no it is not me, but it shows the process.
27 Likes
Aha! Of course I never thought about doing it like that; I naively assumed you turned a big block of metal into that. 
2 Likes
Here’s a little project that I’ve been working on for about a year…
A friend of mine is a huge Packers fan and asked me to build her an eNable / Team UnLimbited arm. After printing the parts for two arms (one in each color), I let her pick the pieces a la Build-a-Bear. Of course this left me with a complementary set of parts, so I went ahead and built that one too.
There are a few remaining tasks – stringing the “tendons,” adding straps & padding, etc., but on Tuesday she’ll have both “home” and “away” arms!
I love it when a plan comes together!
Tech notes:
- Printed on an Ultimaker 2 using PLA+ (0.2mm layers, 50-100% infill)
- Each set of arm pieces took ~24 hours across 3 days to print
- Material cost of each device was $15 in plastic and ~$10 in fiddly bits
43 Likes
That’s hypnotizing! 
3 Likes
Home and away arms? That’s fantastic!
3 Likes
Manual lathe. That’s what makes it so fun 
Why thank you very much. That makes me feel really good
3 Likes
Metal. Wow very cool!!!
My is for wood only🤗
Do not know what kind of lathe you have, my lathe is a wood lathe.
Used it to turn the wood form, get some round disk and make a couple of tools and you can do that on your lathe.
3 Likes
Nice spinning there. Never tried it but it looks so fluid, must be fun!
Thanks for sharing with us.
Nice work Mary!
Thanks for the share!
1 Like
You almost make me want to explore 3D printing… very cool!
2 Likes
Very nice job!! Those are amazing (Always keep extra fiddly bits in stock !)
1 Like
Very interesting 
I will have to look into that
1 Like
I recommend a lathe wholeheartedly
Good on you for the two drill presses👍
One of those is on my list to get for my new shop someday
2 Likes