March 2018 – Rudy Lopez – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Jeff V. filling in for Prez Chrystal

: Demonstrator Rudy Lopez from Tampa Florida

: Project 1 is winged bowl from crotch wood

: Rudy uses double-beveled bowl gouges ground at 40, 60, and 80 degress. Shown is negative rake scraper with long edge for inside deep smoothing

: Writeup on long negative rake scraper available under Handouts on his website: rudolphlopez.com

: Showing the double bevel

: Jig for grinding the double bevel

: Rolly Munro tool for deep hollowing – Rudy’s favorite

: Crotch turned between centers using large spur center

: Large spur – about 1.5″ diameter

: Shaping the bottom

: Cut tenon on bottom

: Smoothing with negative angle scraper

: Reverse holding with tenon – note marks where held by large spur

: Thinning the wings from the top

: Negative rake scraper turning mostly air

: Starting the hollowing

: Checking depth with laser depth finder

: Shop made laser depth gauge

: Hollowing with gouge

: Final shape

: Showing how chucked on bottom

: Showing urethane plastic soft chuck (rubberchucky.com) and leather pad for jam chucking

: Jam chucking with rubber chucky to finish bottom

: Final bottom cleanup

: Cut off with Japanese pull saw

: Final winged bowl – top

: Final winged bowl – top

: Final winged bowl – bottom

: Joanne declares it good

: Showing how to support bowl with stand

: Project 2 is deep bowl in Cuban Mahogany with natural edge rim. Exercise using bowl gouges for hollowing.

: Shaping bottom and tenon

: Reversed for hollowing

: Hollowing

: Final project 2 – round bottom

: Banana bowl – multiaxis turning

: Project 3 vase is square/round exercise

: Layout for cutting the flats on the bandsaw

: As cut with flats

: Bottom rounded and reversed

: Hollowing with Munro tool

: Shaping the base

: Final shaping of foot

: Use sanding disk on lathe to smooth the flats (the $3000 disk sander)

: Final project 3 vase – flats can be further decorated or textured