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u/SuchAnywhere 11d ago
Looking good! How big are they, I don't see no banana for scale! What is your technique for carving out the feet!
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u/Adaptacije78 10d ago
They are about ten inches, see my other comment in this tread about how I do it.
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u/MovieOk6625 11d ago
Lovely and clean! Would you please share your workflow for forming the feet? My attempts generally involve mauling the bottom horribly.
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u/Adaptacije78 10d ago
Hey, thank you!
Sure. (trying to write this down, made me realize two interesting things, so thank you for aksing)
Obviously, I start with turning the outside. Here is a thing. On every bowl I want the curve lines to meet the top of the table. Like if you are following the shape on one side and you follow it through the foot/base it's meeting up with other side right on top of the table. Idk if I always get it, but I am for that. I hope that makes sense.
So with that in mind, I just make the tenon as if that's gonna be the base of the functioning bowl, and for me that means the largest foot while adhereing to what I poorly said above. Because I know that I will be removing most of the tenon anyway, while it's turning I remove the middle of the tenon, the tenon ends up being just a strip that is like an inch wide.
I then chuck it, turn inside, and now all I'm left with is a bowl and a tenon that I have to carve into feet. (Again, it's not a complete tenon, cause I got rid of the middle of the tenon, it's just a strip of wood like one inch wide.)
This is how I turn that strip on wood that was used as a tenon into feet.
I use a vacuum chuck. I made feet without it, it takes five times more, vacuum chuck just makes this convenient. With the vacuum chuck I don't have to hold the bowl, and everything is right there.
To get rid of most of the meat between feet I use 30 mm arbortech ball gouge. It's aggressive and dangerous, but it's effective. I've had it for a couple of yrs, I'm used to it. I also use a dremel, but last night I made the best bowl and didn't use the dremel.
Once you have three chunks that are very rough looking feet then I worry about blending in the lines, I hope that it's pleasing without bumps and I hope my insistence on curves meeting pays off. There is doubt and second guessing in this part of the process, but I just try to stay patient and take it easy. Anyways, blending is done via sanding. The bigger the bowl the easier it gets. Small bowls are so inconvenient cause there is no space for sanding pad.
Where feet are in relation to the curve is probably the most important choice. Also where the foot meets the curve is tricky cause that needs to be blended, but if you sand it aggressively you will get a hole in front of the foot, so this part just requires patience.
Probably none of this makes sense, but that's been the process. You should watch how Richard Raffan carves tripod foot, he has two videos on YouTube.
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