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Monthly Meeting - Home Grown -Jerry Warner - Bowl Rim Inlay

When:
Saturday, February 19, 2022, 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM
Where:
Kennedy Heights Cultural Arts Center, Lindner Annex
Kennedy Heights Art Center
6620 Montgomery Road
Kennedy Heights, OH  45213

Additional Info:
Category:
Monthly Meeting
Registration is recommended
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Capacity:
100
Available Slots:
50
No Fee

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Over the years I have tried a number of surface embellishments such as carving, pyrography, piercing, etc. on wood turned items.  The one that I will demonstrate during this session is the embedding of sliced walnut shells into the perimeter of bowls using a mixture of fine wood dust and epoxy.  I am assuming that you know how to turn a bowl, let it dry, and then finish turn it to the shape you want.  So I will begin with a bowl that has been turned, dried and, finish turned on the outside - the inside will be finish turned after the band of walnut shells and outside have been completed.   

 

Once the bowl has been finish turned on the outside I will use a pencil to mark off the width of the band that will be made.  Then I will use a parting tool to create a trench of this width around the diameter of the bowl (It is critical that the bowl is dry so that it doesn't warp).   Walnut shell slices will be prepared on the bandsaw and glued in place using epoxy.  I will use a string that is cut to the diameter of the bowl to determine how many slices of walnut shell I will need.  With the bowl mounted on the lathe, I will smear epoxy on the back side of the shell slices and put them in place. As I place them I will use blue painter's tape to keep them from moving.

 

After the epoxy has been allowed to set and the slices are firmly attached to the bowl, I will mix more epoxy with very fine wood dust collected from the inside of my dust collector.  There are many crevices in the walnut shells so  I have to work fast and carefully to fill in as many as possible.  I will put more blue tape over this so that the epoxy doesn't run/drip as I rotate the bowl on the lathe.  Although the epoxy is supposed to set within about 5 minutes, I like to let it cure for several hours before I turn away the excess.  After this first turning I will find that there are usually many crevices that did not get filled with the epoxy mixture.  To deal with this I will mix a second batch of epoxy/wood dust and apply it again in the same manner.  In most cases I will need to do it a third time.  

 

Once this is completed I will do final sanding on the outside of the bowl.  Then I will turn the inside of the bowl to the final thickness that I want.  Then I will sand the inside, turn off the tenon, and finish off the bottom.  Now all that is left to do is apply a finish to the bowl.

 

Due to the time limitations I will have bowls that are in various stages of completion so that you get to see the complete process.  I have included pictures of  three bowls that have been completed.   If we have time at the end I will also demonstrate the turning of a natural edge bowl.

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Warner 3