Hollowing a huge bowl using an adze

A quick look at hollowing a large Poplar bowl using one and two handed adze's to remove the waste as quickly as possible. footage was taken at The northern power tool and woodworking show in Harrogate November 2015. The blank we started with was appox 30"x20" freshly cut Poplar and weighed in at around 100Kg.
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[@paganoutdoors3193]

What a beautiful bowl, amazing grain pattern, good video Lee, some serious skill and effort gone into that bowl, cheers craig

[@LeeStoffer]

+Craig Twiner Thanks Craig it was good fun and kept us warm at the show!

[@Zedoutdoors]

Some serious labour goes into that kinda work, great stuff Lee ~Peace~

[@LeeStoffer]

+Zed Outdoors Cheers Zed, still got a way to go with this one, the knot fell out during the last stages of hollowing so got to figure out a way to sort that now!

[@shannonehlert8482]

@@LeeStoffer have you tried making another piece of wood in the shape to where it will have to be hammered into the bowl

[@williamcollins3506]

Beautiful, love the tunes as well.

[@Rich_Adventure]

That's a quality piece of work looks ace, great vid lee

[@Judge_Mike]

and the resulting bowl weighted.. ?
i wonder how much wood one can carve out in an hour using an adze

[@mossybark8753]

That's a lot of beavering going on. A great looking bowl I like the grain that way, I really like interesting grains and that adze.
I've just finished a bowl but it's laughable compared to that and it's taken me a shame full year to get done...

[@LeeStoffer]

+Mossy Bark Cheers, I prefer the grain effect this produces, working in from the bark side of the log. I didn't take too long to do the rough hollowing probably a couple of hours in between chatting to folk at the show. shaping the outside took twice as long and I've still got a few hours finishing to do when it's dried out not to mention plugging the hole left by the knot which turned out to be rotted!

[@coreycoffell6219]

It's not a very big boat...

[@thomasmichouxwright8922]

looks horrible, why not get it off the ground and straighten your back?

[@whittlerdave1440]

Awesome work

[@silva-anderida7695]

Beautiful.

[@gandalftheblack3464]

2:05

[@braydenlangham5154]

Song name?

[@LeeStoffer]

'blame' by Mr Brown it's on the count 2:10 ep