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Show and Tell time
Ray H.
Arnie R.
John As.
John As. – Pecan
Maryalice B.
MaryAlice B.
Bruce B.
Bruce B. – Porcupine quills
Robert M.
Robert’s punch for mouse ears
Kyle C. and Terry K.
Kyle C. – colored plywood
Rick H.
Jim R. demonstrating captive scraper system to Cabrillo mentors during break
Matt Monaco from Missouri – all-day demo focusing on tool technique. Website is monacobowls.com
Matt Monaco
Matt Monaco
Cut to show wall thickness – He sands when surface is just dry enough to not clog paper
“Wood Pottery” – very thin in Silver Maple
Bead decoration
All the wood used today in demo is Avocado – First project is beading demo with his special gouge grind
Series of beads cut with gouge
Practice piece – bead work
Avocado blank for second project: shallow bowl
Cutting the tenon – notice the cracks
Create a tenon for Oneway chuck
Tenon should be shorter than jaws, and jaws should be snug against bottom of bowl
Matt’s custom shape achieved by freehand grinding. Has straighter wings and smaller tip
Matt’s prefered grind on left
Freehand (“Naked”) grinding. He grinds from wing to tip, both right and left handed
Left handed on left side
Comparison of grinds – middle is his preferred
Matt’s tools
Cutting downhill – against the grain is do-able with this grind
Variety of beads
Spear point sheer scraper
The micro bevel on “bottom feeder” gouge
Hollowing with heavy gouge
On screw chuck – Cut off beads and repurpose as jam chuck and, later, hollowform
Prepare jam chuck
Hold with tailstock
Sheer scrape with spear point scraper
Concave bottom
Little bead on bottom
Turn jam chuck into hollowform blank
Bead at collar
This shows off the gouge shape
Cut bead on top
Hollowing scraper – Keep tip rotated down so won’t catch
Curved hollowing scraper tool to get around corner
Fit jam chuck
Remove tenon
Concave bottom
Saw off tenon
