Apple Wood Hollow Form: Advanced Woodturning Project - Page 3

A block of scrap is placed at the split to give a place for support and the tail stock is brought up for safety. I begin to turn with a 5⁄16" Oland.

Slowly I work my way down the form. This is very dry apple and hard to work. There is also no sensation of achieving a safe place to work as the split prevents a solid surface. The lathe is moving about 800 rpm.

I am roughing more than not at this point and my objective is mostly to remove the flats from either end of the piece. There is a lot of cracking occurring on this end.

Meanwhile there is a lot of wood still to remove as I seek to turn away the end flats and work toward a fluid form.

There are also the incurves to turn away although there might be opportunity for negative space if part of the incurve was left to be turned through later.

So I continue down the form, leaving a cylinder of sorts behind. For design purposes I cut up from the bottom to leave an indication of where the screws will finish