Turn better bowls - Episode 1

Welcome to the first of a four-part series aiming to help you to improve your bowl turning technique and to turn better bowls. In this first part, I look at timber selection, initial mounting on the lathe, truing up the blank with a push cut and a pull or draw cut and turning a chucking tenon. Time stamps: Introduction 00:03 Grain orientation: 00:48 Initial mounting of a bowl blank: 03:20 Truing up the sides of the blank, using a push cut: 07:55 Truing up the base of the blank, using a pull or draw cut: 12:57 Body movement for the pull or draw cut: 17:38 Cutting a chucking tenon on a bowl blank: 19:04