How to Turn a Bowl on the Pole Lathe with Ben Orford (Part 1)

This 5 part series shows you how to turn a bowl on a Green Woodwork pole lathe. From shaping your blank with an axe to using a variety of chisels and fine tuning your bowl, Ben shows you how to get the most from your pole lathe and how to create your very own bowl.
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[@ImprovisedSurvival]

No one but a woodworker will ever appreciate just how much effort goes into making one. Liked and Subscribed, thanks from Chicago.

[@art4med]

While of course your major instructions are important, gotta love the tiny, almost incidental tips, and your conversational manner. Feel like you are giving us real meat for an enthusiast. Please keep it up!!

[@grantoaklands4724]

Just discovered your channel....excellent - so many things I'm interested in🙂. Can you please tell me where I can find instructions on how to build pole lathe.
Cheers
Grant
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[@Grizzydan]

Please Ben make some more video's of making things with the pole lathe!! I'm going to beg all of you fine people to post more =) I am building my own now.

[@bushblade]

Nice one Ben, glad to see more video's from you.

[@OnEvenKeel]

This is a great tutorial playlist, Ben!

[@doomed4992]

Dunno what bit of kit you need to muffle the wind but please get it? other than that I really like your clips so far

[@guimoliverassola9199]

Hi Ben, very interesting video series, I'm starting with footpowered lathes and I'm trying to turn my first bowls. How dry is the wood you use to make the blank? How do you get it dry without cracking it? thank you for your help! (sorry for my bad english)

[@bcknives4297]

At 9:30, it looks like a mushroom! Hahaha

[@MrJohn714]

Lets not be fooling around, get that next one made! :)

[@xjoshrottenx]

good video !

[@goingdurden967]

How do You dry the bowls so that they won't crack?

[@rodolfojosebravocaballero2023]

Exellent. Rudy peru

[@carpespasm]

Nice video, but it's time to work up a wind sock for your camera (if you haven't already)

[@the430movie]

It is video's like these that cause me to pull the hair out of my balled head, or cause me to brush my toothless mouth! Make me buy cars with 'one speed' (stop)! It is video's like these, are why i............................................. subscribe!......

[@christjulipds13]

Go to woodprix if you'd like to build it yourself.

[@stupidhandles]

I'm just finishing my first pole lathe (spindle) but after watching this I'm deffinately starting on a second, bowl turning, lathe almost immediately. Mainly because you have simplified the madrel, other lathes I have seen you drill out a section for the mandrel (which I think seems more hassle than anything else). any tips for the design of the lathe? I appologise now but im going to copy your design from these viseos, any changes you'd recommend if you where buliding a new lathe from scratch?

[@matthewlavergne5610]

Go to woodprix if you'd like to build it yourself.