Woodturning Cypress Scorched Lipped Bowls

Welcome back to my shop. In this video we're going to do something that we've never done before and it's about time we did. And this is production, finishing, turning of bowls. I have here one, two, three, four bowls that I've prepared before. So this is an olive bowl, or it will be a plate, that I've turned on the 4th of April. So that's half a year and it's been drying since and it's pretty dry and ready. I do have some water stains here because I had a leak so I don't know how much I will have to take off before this disappears but we will just have to see. I've got a cypress bowl that if you remember this is the bowl that I've turned where I had the problem with my lathe that was wobbling. So that's dry as well and that's from the 12th of May and it's quite dry now and ready to be finished and it's going to be really nice. I might even try scorching this a little bit to bring out the grain but we will have to see. It will be the first time that I'll scorch anything so we will have to see how we're going to manage that and I need to finish up this base pretty badly. Maybe with some harsh sanding and we'll see. This is another cypress bowl, quite a large one, which I've turned on the 19th of April so that's also half a year ago and it's quite dry, quite light, there's some tear out but that will go away. And the last one is also a cypress, small bowl, might turn into a platter, turned on the 4th of April actually, the same day I've turned this olive and that's going to be nice. There's a small bark inclusion here, we'll try to keep it as part of the bowl and I think that I might try to scorch this one too. I was paid to shoot a man I didn't even get the money I turned around and took to the road I've been wandering to where I'm from and made my way to Chicago I see the fire of the barrel and bullet fly like an arrow I see the trouble in the bowman's eyes I see his soul take to the skies Yes and I'm going, oh I'm going Yes and I'm going, yes and I'm going So Okay I sanded the rim to 320. It's really beautiful, just beautiful grain and the cypress, just love it. So I'm going to scorch this rim but before I do I'm going to give it the lathe and around the lathe a good cleanup because I don't want anything to catch up on fire obviously. So give me a couple of minutes to organize everything and we'll give it a go. Okay everything is cleaned up all around the lathe. Now I'm using this, let me see if I can get it all in the shot, I'm using a MAP burner, it's a MAP gas, M A P P gas and I have this pad that is actually used for creating glass beads. It burns really hot and it's gonna burn this wood just nicely I believe. We're going to try this together. I'm going to spin, I don't have anything to connect to my lathe at the moment to spin it slowly so I'm going to try spin it at the lowest speed and see how it takes. This doesn't seem, I see a little bit of darkening here and a little bit here. Maybe I'll try without spinning it manually. I think that should do the trick. Still, you can still see some of the grain through the scorching. Let me give it a quick sanding and see how it looks. I want it darker. Okay it looks like it did the trick. Got a couple of hairline cracks that's developed here that will get a CA treatment in a second. Okay I want to do some scraping on the outside again to make it sharp again. I'm breathing this in and choking you out by the seat of the mountain screws. Just have anything, anything, anything to do with you. To do with you. My feelings some strange power I choose. Fly on, fly on like a bird. Hot head and morbid shiver. Mountain black, mountain black as construction paper. Okay I needed to finish the bottom of my bowl. This is the first of four and I'm going to try something new today. I'm going to be using my sanding wheel which I've made from plywood and some velcro and a piece of rubber foam that you can get in any hardware store masquerading as a bathroom rug and I'm going to use it as a friction chuck to spin the bowl so I'll be able to finish the bottom. So this is the first time I'm trying this and it's going to be interesting. I'm going to bring in my tailstock and I'm going to place my bowl against the rubber and use my life center to center it. I've never tried this before but I have a feeling it's not that bad. Let me spin it around and see how it reacts. I'm going to stay out of the way obviously. That is actually not half bad. My very first scorched rim bowl and I think, well it's more of a plate than a bowl but I think it came out really nice. The grain is lovely, the color is lovely, the bark inclusion is a nice touch, the burnt rim is very nice. You can see the grain in the dark parts and some of it took better to the finish than the other which gives it a striped effect and I think it's really nice and unique. So I've finished a couple of bowls and I'd like to show them to you and now flat bottom, more of a plate than a bowl but still we have the rim that was scorched and there's the inclusion, it looks really nice and also I've done the wobbly bowl. As you can see the grain and the color and the finish came out really nice. I think this is probably one of my favorite bowls ever. With the scorching and the grain, perfect size, absolutely small, high in the wood. Here I have a little foot that will give the bowl when it's resting on the table a levitating effect. It would look like it's above the table a little bit. The grain is really nice, hope the camera catches the details. And as you can see by my attire that it's getting really cold here in the shop. Actually it's not nice being with the hat so it's about time I remove it. And I want to thank you for joining me in the shop for this project. I'm sorry that I've lost some of the footage of the bowls but those things happen. I'm going to start working harder and better to prevent that from happening ever again but I can't make any promises. Thank you for joining me in my shop for this project and I hope to see you back in my shop really soon. Bye!