Very nice!
Since using a lathe while taking an adult education woodworking class 20 years ago, I’ve always wanted to get one. I’ve also lived in an apartment or condo with no garage for the last 20 years. Well, we’ve just closed this last Thursday on buying a house and I now have my garage. I now have a wood lathe and this is my first bowl I turned.
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Very pretty. Nice grain structure. Interesting and inviting shape. Two thumbs up!
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Impressive - both the bowl and the fact that your first major purchase for the house was a lathe. Also, getting right on a project so soon after moving into a new house.
Congratulations on all fronts are in order!
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Thanks! 
Great observation 
Actually the first major purchase was a king size bed, I’ve never owned one of those before either and now there is room.
Well, most rooms are filled with boxes including the garage. Much needs to be done 
But we created a space amongst the boxes next to the open garage door. Actually used the sun for lighting. Had to stop because the sun was going down. 
Turning this bowl was awesome!!!
One has to have priorities in life, also a wonderfully supportive spouse 
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Great job! I’ve also been thinking hard about getting a lathe since we moved into our first house last year. I’ve been scrounging local auctions and waiting; fortunately when I came home the other day with two drill presses, my other half was actually pleased.
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really nice bowl. CNC or manual lathe?
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Beautiful job! (Can’t believe that’s your first bowl…it looks like the kind I buy at craft fairs.) 
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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.
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Whoaaaa.
I guess it probably requires a relatively expensive chunk to start with? I suppose you could catch the shavings and reforge them…
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Do you start with a flat disk and then just shape it? (How would you do metal?) 
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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.
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Aha! Of course I never thought about doing it like that; I naively assumed you turned a big block of metal into that.
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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
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That’s hypnotizing! 
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Home and away arms? That’s fantastic!
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Manual lathe. That’s what makes it so fun
Why thank you very much. That makes me feel really good
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Metal. Wow very cool!!!
My is for wood only🤗