Woodworking in Home: Tea box lid photos and the walnut hickory bowl continued

Hi Everyone,
As I mentioned in my previous posting, the lid I made yesterday for the tea box broke-the knob came off just as I was about to turn it on the lathe. So I made another one. This lid has the knob attached with wood glue and a metal screw:
This is the 1st lid that broke:

This is the replacement lid with the screw inside of the base and knob:

Im going to let the glue dry over night and tomorrow morning, Ill continue on with this project.
Now well turn our attention back to the walnut-hickory bowl from last evening.
The end grain on the bowl was raised a bit from turning and so I needed to smooth down the surface. You can accomplish this by sanding (yuk) or by very gently scraping the surface with a very sharp chisel while the bowl is turning on the lathe (yea!). This will scrape off very fine wood shavings and you can see them on my hand below:

This resulted in a very smooth surface that required minimal sanding:

Here is a photo of the bowl off of the lathe. Not bad. Time to flip it over and hollow it out.

Here is a beginning photo of the bowl on the lathe. Given that its heavy, Im going to turn it between centers for safetys sake:

This photo shows the bowl after about 10 minutes of turning. Ive cut threw the walnut layer and into the hickory layer below it. It looks like a giant bowl of ice cream with chocolate on top and vanilla on the bottom!

Here is the bowl with the center section removed and about 1 1/2 inches deep. Im going to stop now and clean up the shop. After a week of turning Im up to my knees in wood shavings.

Im going to give my hands a rest for the rest of the day so Ill see you tomorrow. Have a great evening.
VW

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