The bowl made in this video will be ready for delivery in a few weeks and will go to the first person who makes a reasonable offer on it! You can help support the channel, get a cool keepsake, and have reference on how it was made. That's gotta be worth something.
Contact me via the website if interested. wortheffort.com
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I was given the opportunity to cherry pick some trees from a lot that was about to be bulldozed. So in one day I felled and processed a nice oak and turned it into a finished green bowl. Lots and lots of tips along the way.
I’ve been turning for two years because of your videos. I come back often and watch again learning new methods, short cuts. You are an awesome, informative teacher. I truly appreciate you sharing your wealth of knowledge and artistry. Thank you.
Your Dad is one cool fella! Hope you guys enjoy each other’s company
Thank you, thank you. I know this is 6 years old, but it helps me out a ton.
Outstanding tutorial. I'll definitely reference several times. Thanks.
Your videos are super informative and entertaining to boot!!! Thanks for sharing.
Learned alot today about green wood turning great turtorial I'll be back.
Much better than bulldozing. Good luck at the market! Learn something new every day.... Thank you
What an amazing teacher. I enjoyed that. Thank you.
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I'm new to turning so keeping things small scale at the moment. Watching you videos has helped me so much and inspired me to better more complicated pieces. Cheers and all the best from Paul in the UK.
Great video, loved it. Great Job. You da man Shawn!
This was a great video. I new at this turning but have learned so much from your videos. Thank you and keep on.
You are a good teacher. I've seen that across your videos.
This was the most informative video I watched yet. I needed to see you do a bowl from start to finish just to see how you do it from cutting the tree to finish. Awesome!
Thanks for this video demo Shawn. I already knew most of what you were saying....some I learned from other turning videos and some from experience. However, it's always great to get confirmation from a more experienced turner. Thanks so much for sharing. 👍🏽
Love, love, love your videos! I especially appreciate when you share your thought process. You are a wonderful teacher!
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Loved the video thanks for sharing your experience with us.
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Your vids are great. Topics are about new things, presentation is on point without wasted activity and very practical advise from an experienced turner. Thanks !
Great process with nice results.
+The ShavingWood Workshop Thanks
Hi, great video! I just wanted to tell you just how much I appreciate all the detail you put into your videos. They really are detailed and instructional. Thanks! and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Great beginning to end video. Thorough!
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love your style , very informative. Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing your time, expertice and encouragement.
Much appreciated.
A great video - thank you!
Great video. Thanks for sharing your skills!
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Nice work love ypur organised approach to your work certainly pays offì
How lucky are You! So cool
Great job thank you very much for sharing your techniques.
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having a blast watching your vids today, thanks!
that's great.
Wonderfull...... great job and tips
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Very well done, I love the video and your easy style of instruction. Nice job
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Really needed to see this. Just acquired 4 of the largest logs to date from a sycamore that blew down yesterday. Looking forward to trying these techniques. I've got to get them 300 miles home in the back of my car first though. Thanks for the detailed and positive explanations. Kevin (UK)
You are so very blessed with many talents including teaching! Thank you for sharing your blessings!
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Been watching for a while. Best all around site I know of. Please keep up the good lessons.
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Nice looking bowl. Hope it sells well. I always enjoy your videos.
+Rick Reed Thanks Rick
I’ve watched many of your videos; you are an extremely bright young man. You know a lot about a lot - well enough to teach it well.
toOnybrain thanks - 50 ain’t so young.
Very helpful
Only just found your channel - really great knowledge & demonstrations.
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good man excellent job..straight and simple to the the point...
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great timing I just picked up a union graduate 600 I know it is old but will take a 18 inch blank the way you did this video was great lots of little tips ... will have to watch this a couple of times to get them to sink in thanks again for all to guys do...
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. I had no idea that much thought went into harvesting a bowl blank . I’m new to turning and hope to one day be able to make such a beautiful piece.
the deeper you go the more thought there is.
This was helpful. Not that i could do that right now. I would love to see the end result in a few weeks. All that free wood ;)
Fantastic bowl. Taking the time to evenly space the heartwood and sap wood really makes a huge difference in the end result. Great job.
+Ranni Kaffar Thanks Ranni
Wow, i think i am going to make my own bowl. :D
Love your videos. I used info from you and turned a nice little box yesterday. I like turning green wood and some of the weird shapes. sometimes I dry then slow in the microwave. Ernie from Whidbey Is.
Excellent!! Thanks
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I have watched your videos since the beginning and I can honestly say I have been able to support my family from learning from your videos thank you
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Yes, I am gearing up to restart my spoon and utensil business, but also your information how to do bowls will allow me, withe books, to make sets of bowls and servers. I wonder if there is a way to make a bowl and lid from the same matching log?
@@russbowman6801 Instead of turning a bowl shape turn an oval shape when you get a rough shape cut the oval in half then turn the bowl from one half then the lid from the other, you can even put a tenon on the lid or try to make fancy rims that fit together (with dry wood)! This is all my guess I'm a guitar builder not a turner but I think turning is interesting.
I had no idea. Well, a little. Thanks for documenting this. I'm not into turning AT ALL so this was enlightening.
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bloody good video mate... cheers from Australia
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Worth the watch, thank you very much! I’m wanting to get a lathe and have access to a lot of free wood (and happen to like warped bowls!) You’re so informative and can tell you put heart and soul into it, again, thank you from Vancouver Canada 👍
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Amazing.
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Great video. I don't have the patience to wait a year to see the finished product. again great instructional video
Turn thin and even and you shouldn't have to wait too long.
Thanks for the video, I learned from it
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Awesome video Thanks!
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I loved watching you drop that tree. It show your inexperienced in not doing it all that much but also show your respect of the tree and the chainsaw as to what dangers that could be there. Not everyone know what dangers there are but it is wortheffort to learn and share with others. Nice job
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I really enjoyed your video man. I've been watching a lot of yours. Good stuff!
+John Cole Thanks John
The framing square to lay out your undercut was a very good idea. Ditto for the stump slot to rip the blanks.
Yesssss... A really helpful and informative video. I now know how I've wasted so much wood in the drying procedure! Plus I have learned so much other stuff along the way. BRILLIANT VIDEO. Cheers Andy
+Andrew Smith Thanks Andy
you are one of the most encouraging craftsmen I've ever stumbled across. And craftsmen, because of something in their DNA, tend to be very encouraging people anyway. Can't wait to try a big bowl! (on my 10" lathe....) :-)
Thanks In my "Turn your first Bowl" I did it on a mini 10"'r.
Thanks for sharing l “Tree to Bowl in one Day”
Hope you try some of the tips and make one yourself.
best video from best one with best tree 😂😚😚
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Wow that was a great video and very informative. Makes me want a lathe if I could only get off my bed with a bad back.
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Praise God for your willingness to teach others your knowledge and wisdom and understanding of woodworking on a lathe! 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone. God bless you! You are very good at what you do.
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Even after almost six years, this video is still interesting, informative, and impressive. Thanks
Great video! How long do the logs need to dry? And when you say rough cut them do you cut them to the shape of a bowl and also what oil do you put on the so that they won't crack? Sorry I'm new to this. Turned my first practice bowl today
Great vid! I started using 2 coats yellow glue to seal log ends. I have had no end cracking so far and it's been several months since the logs were cut.
Yellow glue ? Like wood glue ?
@@nickdewalt4526 yes. works great! some wood splits no matter what you do. but the yellow glue is thick and makes a good coat. but in my experience after turning over 200 bowls, don't let the wood sit. cut it and rough turn it ASAP. It's a whole lot easier that way, easier on the chain saw, easier on the band saw, easier on the lathe. At least cut log and cut on band saw to make a blank and the wrap with stretch wrap. this keeps it from drying out. I have some logs that have been sitting since Jan and in our 100 deg heat, they dried way too fast and split some what. Oak logs were the worst, huge splits.
Glad I saw your video, I've been drying the wood in the microwave after ruff turning but your theory is more to my liking
simpler the better
wow you are so lucky. oak trees for days man. there is so much turning material there and you can make a ton of stuff out of a tree. i would be just like you were at the start. grinning from ear to ear. but i wold not be so selective. id go for all the free oak i could get in a week. simply cause it is so expensive where i live. heck even after the dozers get there id be asking them to move some them over to the side for me to get later. what a wonderful opportunity. super lucky.
Oak is temperamental to work with green, cracks quickly.
You have produced another outstanding and helpful video! If I don't have have time to rough turn the felled tree right away, is it an option to coat all bare surfaces with a product like Anchorseal and then stack the wood pieces where they have plenty of air flow for several months?
I'm never going to fell a tree (too old and too stupid), but I learned a good deal from the video. I was given some big sections of cherry, and had no idea how to get bowl blanks out of them. Now I know; thanks. Keep up the great work.
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awesome work, some turners say you can help stop the fast drying by cutting out the heart
Did you mean pith? as such we showed how we cut that out when sectioning up the log. It and the wood close to it is usually trash. My understanding the heartwood is what you want as opposed to sap wood.
"As a woodturner, I do not like to buy wood" Yup! You're a brave man to put chainsaw footage and especially felling footage on youtube. Nothing draws out the negative comments like chainsawing and tree felling. "You're doin it wrong!" "That looks unsafe" etc etc
+awldune I could always do better. Sometimes trolls have some insight I hadn't thought of but you usually have to filter it out. But I can always say I'm alive and the trees down so... success.
It's a chain saw; of course it's not safe....the time when one thinks it is, then they better throw it far away and go work at Home Depot. Pride chopped off more fingers and toes and maybe other body parts than just about anything else.
Thanks for the video. I am a relatively new wood turner but pretty enthusiastic and trying to get past all the catches and getting enough experience to be confident with what I am doing. I have lots of dying post oak on my property and often times when I cut the trees down it is a mixed bag. Sometimes there are some interesting hollowed out cavities potentially ripe for epoxy fill. I also have a few logs I cut down a while back ( about 5 years ago (post oak and cedar) and stored them in the corner of my garage (not knowing any better nat the time). These are 16 inches plus and about 6 foot lengths and now they are substantially less heavy as they were when I cut themn down. . On the surface you can see some cracks and checking but I cut a section out of one of the cedar ones and lots of it was OK to use. I actually made a small plate out of a section of one that turned out very nice. The wood seems dry now. My take on the oak now is that it is hard, hard, hard and there are probably sections of the log that will be turnable. Are there any issues of using this wood or should I just chuck it. I kinda like the idea of using it because it seems to be dry now.
Old wood is always a risk. Things can explode because of internal cracks. I wouldn't do a bowl but maybe small spindles from known clear sections.
@@wortheffort Thanks. I don't know if you are in the Austin area. I live in Bastrop and the Berdoll saw mill near here has literally tons of offcuts of green pecan and Mesquite. They do slabs mainly but sell these offcuts for almost nothing. I think $1 a cubic foot but when I was there they will take what you want to pay basically. This is a very minor sideline and you are acually doing them a favor by getting rid of this pile. Some pieces I took lately where pretty substantial 4X12X16 some endgrain some you could do as a tradition cut. Most of what I saw and tool was away from the pith as well. Don't know if this interferes with the "I pay for no wood" philosophy but it is a really good source of very cheap bowl blanks.
See my latest video on how pros dry wood.
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Let’s holler real loud!
Just getting into turning. Sure makes a hell of a mess!! :-)
By the truck load full...
Great video! I’m wanting to get into lathe bowl turning. What kind of lathe are you using?
Hi, your video is lot of inspiring, can you also make a video for how you clean up the workshop after turning the wood.
Leaf blower dude... leaf blower.
Bring along some dump paint from the paint store (dump paint is cheep) while you cut your tree and paint the ends right away, that gives you more time until the wood cracks. I make spoons a lot, so I just paint the ends, let the logs split from the outside in for a few years, and then use a wedge after dry to split the log using the triangular split lines that are usually useful for quarter saw blanks to make the spoons and other kitchen utensils. I waste a lot of wood this way since the logs don't split ideally, but it saves time for my purposes.
I love that you're listening to Critical Role in the background. (31:36...leading up to the Thordak fight HAHAHAHAHA)
OG critter since episode one. Watched on lark because I liked CoOptitude and got hooked.
Awesome. I'm new to it, recently introduced by a friend. Fell in love witht he characters in campaign 2, have almost finished campaign 1 in the past 2 months. NERD LIFE
I heard Grog speak and immediately went to the comments to see if someone else spotted it =D
"anyone can do this" Ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa! Oh man, thanks so much for the laugh! Your Chuck alone is worth more than my lathe and tools combined!
Ima Pseudonym buy used dude. Like I do.
22:26 probley did not realize how bad that sounded sorry. wortheffort great video and very nice bowl very good at explaining things
Do you ever put it in bucket with denatured alcohol then in it own shavings to help draw out moisture?
Gostei muito. Otimo trabalho
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Nice looking wood right there is that red oak thought trees looked like could be white oak ?
Awesome video. Wondering how much a lathe like that would cost?
Do you true up the bottom after it has dried enough for sanding. Don’t need wobble.
Out of curiosity how much do turned bowls go for? I'm thinking of getting a lathe to add to the stuff I make but never considered doing bowls
If you do this type of thing often, you should invest in a chainsaw of your own, but put a ripping chain on it. Use dad's saw for felling the trees and cutting the basic log lengths, lopping branches, ect ... Use your saw for rip cuts that go with the grain for finishing the blank forms. The chainsaw you are using (dad's) has a standard crosscut chain, which is effective for cutting across the grain of a tree to fell it and section it for removal. To use your dad's saw more effectively for cutting your blanks out, you should have laid them on a flat, so that you would be cutting against the grain as you slice your way vertically down through the blank. A ripping chain uses a skip-tooth style of pattern that allows you to remove the longer fibers of the wood more effectively (without clogging the chain which prevents it from cutting through the fibers quickly). The first 2 teeth are only half width, removing part of the fibers, and the next 2 teeth are full width, removing the rest. This style of cutting would work best with the method you used to cut out your blanks. Making sure your chain is sharp is also helpful for making a cleaner straight cut without working the chainsaw's motor too hard. In addition to that, also make sure that you are using an appropriate bar lube (bar oil) to keep the chain moving freely. The saw you are using probably has an automated oiler, but you still have to keep the reservoir topped up. Last, but not least ... if you each have your own saws, you can both go together to take a tree down, and then use his to section up the log, and while he goes and gets his prized reaction wood with his saw, you finish out your bowl blanks with your saw. (Also... if one saw breaks down, you have a spare on hand! Even if you're using the "wrong" chain for the job ... it'll still do it, even if it's slower.)
I think this is awful advice: I'd never use a ripping chain for this sort of thing, only for cutting planks with some sort of milling attachment that conceals the nose. It's true that it would be slightly quicker, but kickback with a ripping chain is hugely amplified and the idea of using one freehand seems to go against every other piece of advice I've heard about them. Also, in my experience trying to cut top-to-bottom of a log takes MUCH longer than cutting side-to-side (as shown in the video). True, standard chains are designed for cross-cutting, but cutting with the grain is still easier - look at the shavings! Good points re: sharpness and oil.
480p resolution you're a o.g man
Abilene, Texas, lived here for 40 years oh another great vid do you remember the train in the window?
My family were one of the first on Lytle Lake. Parentals went to high school and both McMurray and Abilene Christian.
still in Texas? Today is Texas birthday !!!
You need a show on amazon.
Not sure they pay anything.... Thanks
Thumbs up JUST FOR THAT INTRO.
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I really like your teaching style and the information you share. You really live up to your motto. I have a technical question about cutting a log in half with a chainsaw ( something I have to do tomorrow). You said cutting through the endgrain ( I assume you mean cutting from end to end)dulls your chain. The couple of times I had to cut along the sidegrain (side to side) long strips of wood clogged my saw which takes me about 15 min to clean out. How do you avoid this happening? Thanks, Arthur
It’s a balancing act. Also ripping blades help.
@@wortheffort Thanks for the quick reply. I have been thinking of getting a ripping blade since I get mostly bucked logs from others, so am mostly ripping with my chainsaw. Now I will definitely give one a try.
33:00 I laughed at all the wood shavings everywhere. Messy work i see. ^^
yes, yes it is.
Mack Eplan's was a hamburger joint. Macky's was the toy and sporting goods store. Good KZhead!
+Gary Penn ya I got those backwards. Always got the best lemon ice box pies from there
The boring first part of turning is my favourite part
to each there own. :)
Excellent video. You would have to piece together dozens of videos to figure out as much as this video shows you. My one question is what you call those attachments on your lathe at 31:47 to hold the bowl around the outside
Thanks. I think you're talking about jumbo jaws.
That's it thank you
What do you mean by rough finish? You stated the other logs you’ll turn them into a rough finish. I’m just nit sur what is meant by this? Have you a video explaining this step and how you stage this to the final product. Thank you.
Very informational video. What is the one tool you used?
A swept back grind bowl gouge. It's discussed towards the end of the video.
Thank you, missed that part
"...the last thing you want to do is clean up." How right you are - cleaning up is absolutely the last thing I want to do at the end of the day.
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