Club Meeting: 12 Feb 2025
Report by: Ian Connelly
Anwar came well prepared with tools and examples of his wavy bowls.
First you need a bowl with a broad rim, then you need to work out how many segments you want to lay out the wavy pattern. Anwar suggested that odd number look best such as 7, 9, 12.
This was followed with a number of ideas for how to divid up the circumference of the bowl.
- Calculate it, π d gives the circumference, you can then divide this by the number of waves desired… dividers were then used to step around the edge, allowing for adjustment if need before making the marks.
- Use a round template with the angles marked (good method if you are doing many with same number of waves)
The centres between the marks were also marked.
Anwar then mounted a bowl on a woodcut promount and with a sanding drum on drill he showed one of his methods of carving the waves. Other methods included rasps, dremel.
Anwar showed a second example and passed many pieces around the audience.
The final method he presented was a sanding drum he had made by gluing sandpaper to a cylinder of wood and mounting that in a chuck on the lathe.
A great demo giving another idea for how to make a bowl more interesting, thanks Anwar.