Hey Chad, some turners spend money on material to turn. You on the other hand grab a couple of busted arse skateboards and turn them into a stunning bowl. Your imagination is next level...... you see what other turners don't. I've completed you before regarding your skill and artistry which is justified. This piece may be simple but it certainly demonstrates how good you really are. Love, love, love your work mate.👍👍👍
Although the end result looks good, here are some tipps. I work almost exclusively with recycling old skateboards. I’m also turning plenty of bowls and other pieces on the lathe from this marerial. 1. Sand the decks before you cut them, it’s much quicker and cleaner. I recommend an angle grinder with flap discs. 2. You didn’t sand all the laquer and old graphics / debirs and skate wax off, I was terrified for you. That kind of glue up on a bowl blank?? Lucky that only one outer layer flew off. This blank could have exploded on you in a really dangerous way. It is plywood after all. So if you glue 20 layers of skateboards together, you’ll have 19 glue joints + the 6 glue joints inside each skateboard layer. Adding to it, this is hard maple plywood, so not easy to turn regardless. This could have ended very differently, only one glue joint needs to fail for a blank lile this to become a projectile. Please be careful. 3. As you surely noticed, the decks have concave. Which is why your sanding attempts didn’t do too well on a flat belt sander. This concave requires you to match the pieces better and apply more clamping force than usual. I use a press with a hydraulic jack to clamp up bowl blanks. This ensures good contact between layers and safe (as safe as possible) turning. Don’t be discouraged by my words, this is just a bit different from your regular wood. So much fun, once you made actual lumber out of the old decks!
I've done a few bowls from plywood scraps I take home from work. Where do you source enough skateboard decks to do this as I really want to have a go. Nice work and thanks for sharing👍
I'd suggest you not be so parsimonious with the wood glue. There are projects where you need to worry about excess squeeze out but most turning projects will not suffer from too much glue. Otherwise, good looking bowl and interesting turn.
Yeah, more glue definitely would have helped. I use glue so rarely that I had to open a new bottle - the last 2 inches of my old bottle had skinned over it had sitting so long. Haha!
What a great idea using old skateboards. The colours are great. I love it.
One of the coolest turnings ever! So bright and amazing... Well done
Thank you!
Staying like for your unusual idea &work👍👍👍
Ended up pretty cool. I like the dark lines running across it.
Muy bonito .Enhorabuena .
De dónde sacaste las piezas verdes???
Nice one, Chad! I guess I’ll have to hit the garage sales and buy old skateboards to cut up for wood turning.
The hardest part about making skateboard bowls is gathering the decks that have the best colors in them!
Experiment worked :-) I really like the colours and shape, thank you for sharing
Hey Chad, some turners spend money on material to turn. You on the other hand grab a couple of busted arse skateboards and turn them into a stunning bowl. Your imagination is next level...... you see what other turners don't. I've completed you before regarding your skill and artistry which is justified. This piece may be simple but it certainly demonstrates how good you really are. Love, love, love your work mate.👍👍👍
What a great idea 👍
Although the end result looks good, here are some tipps. I work almost exclusively with recycling old skateboards. I’m also turning plenty of bowls and other pieces on the lathe from this marerial.
1. Sand the decks before you cut them, it’s much quicker and cleaner. I recommend an angle grinder with flap discs.
2. You didn’t sand all the laquer and old graphics / debirs and skate wax off, I was terrified for you. That kind of glue up on a bowl blank?? Lucky that only one outer layer flew off. This blank could have exploded on you in a really dangerous way. It is plywood after all. So if you glue 20 layers of skateboards together, you’ll have 19 glue joints + the 6 glue joints inside each skateboard layer. Adding to it, this is hard maple plywood, so not easy to turn regardless.
This could have ended very differently, only one glue joint needs to fail for a blank lile this to become a projectile. Please be careful.
3. As you surely noticed, the decks have concave. Which is why your sanding attempts didn’t do too well on a flat belt sander. This concave requires you to match the pieces better and apply more clamping force than usual. I use a press with a hydraulic jack to clamp up bowl blanks. This ensures good contact between layers and safe (as safe as possible) turning.
Don’t be discouraged by my words, this is just a bit different from your regular wood. So much fun, once you made actual lumber out of the old decks!
Wonderful work
amazing, especially the green color.
Nice Piece, thanks for sharing. Full View and Like
Thanks, man!
I've done a few bowls from plywood scraps I take home from work. Where do you source enough skateboard decks to do this as I really want to have a go. Nice work and thanks for sharing👍
I have a friend who’s a skater and saves me his boards. Unfortunately they all don’t have cool colored layers. Thanks for watching!
Good job 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Great looking bowl 👍
Thanks!
cool idea chad looks good
That turned out very cool Chad. New subscriber here.
Take care
David
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That was fun to watch buddy....good idea! Dropped ya a sub keep up the great content!
Thanks, man!
Hi I want to ask what chisels do you use I mean brand or quality or what material is it made of?
very nice work
Thank you!
It looks great!
That's cool
Chad, for your next challenge incorporate your logo across the plywood laminate with a darker wood.
Hmmm... I'll have to think about how to do that...
can you eat out of this bowl ?
I wouldn’t recommend it.
How many boards did you use?
I used pieces from 3 different boards, but the total amount is about one board worth of wood (without the nose or tail).
I'd suggest you not be so parsimonious with the wood glue. There are projects where you need to worry about excess squeeze out but most turning projects will not suffer from too much glue. Otherwise, good looking bowl and interesting turn.
Yeah, more glue definitely would have helped. I use glue so rarely that I had to open a new bottle - the last 2 inches of my old bottle had skinned over it had sitting so long. Haha!
Awesome dude. Do you think you need woodworking experience to get into this?
Is it expensive to get the lathe and carving tools