Richard Raffan turning a chunky tripod dish
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Chunky bowls need not be clunky - the challenge is to get them feeling so good and well-balanced that when you pick them up you don't want to put them down. This one has three barely discernible feet. You see all the turning, but not all the sanding.
I like the difference between this "chunky bowl" and the more common thin ones. Some of the thin ones are gorgeous. The 2 part video you did a number of years ago with a small cherry blank was a stunning example, and I groaned out loud when you cut it in half.
Nice to see an alternative that keeps some of this amazing wood around and is still an amazing bowl.
Hi Richard
Lovely thick bowl,and beautiful grain pattern,thanks for sharing.
today I updated my dust collection hood using your design.i already had the angled pipe end fitted to a flexible 100 m pipe,so fixed it to the new adjustable “Raffin hood.”
Must say I was amazed at how it performed removing almost all the dust that in the past just drifted around the lathe,and up my nose!
I turn 82 next Tuesday and still use my lathe every day,it’s good for the mind keeps me thinking,and constantly trying to make an item that I see turned on your channel
Thank you so much for passing on all your knowledge and wisdom in a clear concise,and entertaining way to all us old timers.
Regards from NZ
Such a beautiful burl bowl. Fascinating to watch how you created it. I enjoyed catching up with you at the exhibition today.
Beautiful work again Richard! I really appreciate that design, simple but elegant and the wood is exquisite! Scott
I have made many chunky bowls (I call them “Phat”) but without the tripod feet. Thanks for the continued inspiration.
It takes a lot of confidence to go after a beautiful bowl with an angle grinder, I must say. I really like this piece. It looks like an artifact from the distant past. Well done. 👍🏼
It's not an angle grinder Brad, but a right angle portable drilling machine. Oh how I wish I owned one of those. Best regards. 🙃
Great looking piece Richard love the shape.
Rice bran oil is a good choice when so many are allergic to peanut oil. I have seen a few of your heavy type bowls and they are a credit to you. This one very different and very nice. Thank you.
What is this rice bran oil? Never heard of it. Rice bran oil? 🤔
@@johnmitchell1614 just pop into Woolworths or most grocery stores and check out the oil.
I don’t think we have a Woolies here in Scotland any more. I wii look for this oil though. Best regards.
Well done Richard. A nice departure from the usual thin wall bowls. Fantastic figure. I like it. Especially the subtle feet. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day. Stay safe.🙂🙂
My kind of bowl! Burl, rich color, and rounded thick. And the feet are so modest, but do give a nice shadow line.
A nice substantial bowl! Not enough turners understand that thin may be in but thick can also do the trick!
That wood is gorgeous! I always look forward to seeing what you're going to show us next. Thanks for sharing!
Always such a treat to have the opportunity to watch you work Richard.
Beautiful and elegant.
VERY creative video and beautiful bowl.
Very interesting design; I had never seen a turned thick bowl before. The feet are quite subtle. You mentioned at the beginning of the video that the main challenge for a thick bowl is making it feel good when picking it up and holding it. Are there specific features one should strive to provide or is this something that one needs to test while developing the shape? That wood was fascinating; the way it came off the tools was cool to watch but I'm sure was not quite as enjoyable for you turning it. The figure after you applied the oil is awesome.
How a bowl feels is always a part of what makes a good bowl a good bowl, so feeling how it feels is essential.
I'm working on an Australian box burl at this time so this video caught my attention as my blank looks almost identical to yours. Wish I had seen this before I shaped and hollowed mine. As always your work is top shelf and always fascinates me, your an awesome craftsman, don't stop love the video's.
Looks amazing! I love the subtle 3 foot design. Are the pits and cracks in the wood a problem during use of the bowl?
Very interesting bowl. Feet are very surreptitiously placed on bottom. . Love this one Richard.
However you already know my feelings about cooking oil. Try coconut oil. Too thin out the coconut oil I use walnut oil. All of which is available from Aldi and woollies.. thanks for sharing this one.
You must have some very interes and nice wood stacked away.
The rice oil is proving very good so far, but I'll try some coconut. I've very little wood stashed away having downsized and most of what I have is in boxes and priced to sell to local turners. I've a few dozen blanks ready for videos but very little with 'interesting' grain or burl. When in production I had hundreds of roughed bowls and box blanks seasoning, but very few boards.
Yes, it makes a pleasant change from thin stuff all the time. I found creating 3 feet took me as long as making the rest of the bowl though, a lot of hand sanding. Nice job, thanks.
A really pretty chunky bowl. Thank you for sharing.
I think that is one of the nicer bowls you have done!
Certainly one of the better ones you see on this channel.
Very nice bowl.
Beautiful piece. Thanks for the master class.
i like the little feet, havent thought about making them that small :-) well done Richard
Beautiful result.
absolutely love this piece! It really shows your real artist eye! Great work! Thank you for the inspiration!
Velmi zvláštní tvar mísy a nápadité řešení stability… 👌
Very nice burl bowl. The conventional wisdom about how something "should be" is a sure signal to me to do it another way as it applies to design. The key is whatever we make, do it well and produce a final product that is of high quality.
Very nice a beautiful piece of wood. Thanks for another great video.
Very inspirational. I have a piece of beautiful Black Walnut with superior figuring that that shape and tripod bottom would be stunning…if I can pull it off.
Доброго дня, Ричард. Всё гениальное - просто! Чтобы получить красивое изделие совсем не обязательно делать что-то сногосшибательное. Вы сделали простую, но потрясающую вещь. Очень красиво! Спасибо1
That is an amazing looking bowl, in figure and an form. Turning looked more like sanding than anything else. Turning that thin would be nightmare (or epoxying it to deathm and what would be the point of that?) Was this a burl, or is the timber like this through out? Thanks for another entertaining, amusing ('good exercise') and educational video.
This is a burl and it was probably solid when cut. It's at least ten years old and likely nearer 20 or 30 so will have split whilst drying.
Beautiful figuring in that wood and I love the chunky shape. I usually see you sand up to 240. Why did you decide to go up to 400 on this piece?
I always look forward to your videos Richard. Thank you for sharing your talents and experience.
He usually remarks that sanding to a higher grit on utilitarian items means people are more apt to not use them for fear of messing them up. This piece being more decorative than utilitarian you can sand to as high a grit as you please.
Thanks Richard! What kind of wheel was in the angle grinder?
The wheel on the angle grinder is a flap disk.
@kskword Thank you Richard for a beautiful bowl with obvious heft and presence.
A question how would the manufacturer of your 90 deg. sander describe it?
A drill, a grinder or a sander, what size and what make is it?
This is a Makita angle drill.
Hello grand master. I am writing you from Türkiye. The lathe mirror sets and pens you use are very nice. Can you share the internet address and brand where I can buy the materials you used?
I never make pens or mirrors so don't know where to buy them, let alone in Europe. I'm in Australia.
Why don't you use a air compressor?
He said he doesn't have one. I wonder why turners use compressed air to scatter dust everywhere instead of vacuum.
I don't have a compressor and never had one. Through 54 years of professional turning I've managed very well without .
While the bowl's not bad, all in all a rather disappointing video with no sock.
The socks were hanging out with the beeswax. They'll be back.
First!