Small is often more difficult with much tighter tolerances. It's like simple, which is rarely as simple as it might appear.

Wow. Someone admitting a mistake on social media is rare these days. 👍

Wow. Someone admitting a mistake on social media is rare these days. 👍

@@theseconddarrin3788 No mistakes,no credibility.

Beautiful ❤❤

Same. i even showed my tiny bowl collection at our monthly show and tell club night, tiny dishes for pill popper elderly, bowls for pot chop amongst the young set.... likewise, I'm loving these projects.

@@johnwoods9995 Everyone who has seen mine think they are cute as can be. No more throwing away tiny scraps of pretty wood. I love how quickly they can be made and they'll make great little gifts.

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I don't like the glossy finishes that come out of a bottle, but with regular use and ongoing care these bowls will soon develop an antique patina if polished or a deeper flatter patina with use. Which patina develops is up to their new keeper in Alaska.

It depends on how you hold the rag. You NEVER wrap cloth around your fingers so it the rag does catch it's dragged from your hand. I've had the serious injuries with wood flying off the lathe that involved a lot of blood and stitches. Using paper towels when there are rags available is a waste of the world dwindling resources.

The gouge starts pitched up about 10 degrees and on its side.

I've never encountered a situation where a negative rake scraper is superior to a regular scraper. Time and again I've equalled or bettered NR surfaces using conventional scrapers when someone has claimed only NR does the job. The theory is that a NR is less likely to catch because the angle between the surface being turned and the upper bevel is way less than 90 degrees. To achieve a negative rake all you need do is raise the tool handle, and possibly the rest, when turning flat surfaces or at centre.

That's it!! I'd forgotten.

All cotton rags - mostly recycled clothing.

I did once have a few chunks of Lombardy poplar burl that turned well enough. I suspect most turners would regard non-burly poplar as boring regards grain. I always enjoyed turning the poplar provided for American hands-on workshops and demos, but have no idea which poplar it was, only that it was widely available. If the trees are a reasonable size I've have them sawn into boards. I'm sure any number of woodworkers would be interested.

The sound is as good as it'll get without a professional sound engineer and/or myself seeking speech therapy. Try turning up the volume. At 22:25 the the word "foreign" appears, presumably translating the sound of the gouge as there are no words. Maybe it's the closed captions that don't meet your high standards.

I know from experience that hot glue is nothing like as secure as that screw - hot glue is expensive, tedious, and inefficient by comparison. Long before hot glue, small screw chucks were used by generations of production turners for small endgrain items like drawer knobs where the grip is far less secure. If you're pushing the gouge into the cut, then I agree that hollowing within the chuck jaws could end in a nasty catch and some tool and chuck damage. However a key to turning is letting the wood come to the tool with minimal tool pressure against the wood, not pushing the tool forcefully into the wood.

There are hundreds of eucalypts, most of which are not worth considering for woodworking being too prone to splitting and warping. I'm sure each is food safe, like most timbers. In Australia we tend to use the common rather than botanical names. For many years I made a living turning mostly jarrah burl (Eucalyptus marginata) then river redgum burl (E. camaldulensis) when jarrah became too expensive. E. regnans, E. obliqua, and E. delegatensis, are called Tasmanian oak when sourced from Tasmania. E. regnans and E. delegatensis are called Victorian ash when sourced from the state of Victoria. These are often used for joinery and turn well but lack dramatic figure. Most of my bowls sold to tourists who preferred red woods and burl, so I rarely used Tasmanian oak which is more yellow. Blakey's red gum is eucalypt I've used in these videos. So the bottom line is you've seen some eucalypts but not under that name. I'm no longer in production and turning mostly claret ash, casuarinas, and Manchurian pear, all harvested in urban Canberra and a joy to turn after jarrah and redgum. Look out for some Tasmanian oak burl boxes in the next week or two.

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning thank you so much, I have to apologize for my lack of wood culture...I didn't know there were so many different eucalyptus species (and more so the local names of them...). I live in Mexico, and there are Eucalyptus (juste the plain name) all other the places. I'll research which kind it is and tell you! Thank you very much again, so kind of you to give such a thorough answer! I will definitely keep on watching your videos and learning from your amazing knowledge and skills! Always a treat! 🤗