Tulipwood Bowl

I've been using my lathe for around 2 years now and I think this bowl is pretty neat!

Here's how I made it

What I used:

-A lathe

-Some wood (preferably hard wood)

-Chisels

-Bees wax or a Stainer

-Abrasive paper

Pretty simple stuff!

To start off with fix the wood to the base and hoping its round, Fire away!

Your bowl should be dug in quite a bit given its not a dish. Ide recommend you get it as very smooth as possible as this will make sanding an ease. Make sure your tools are as sharp as possible, I can stress enough how much this helps! Just a few minutes of sharpening can go along way.

Your bowl should be as smooth as glass! Well not really, So lets get sanding! sand with a low grit and progressively move higher to a smooth state. Just a heads up that the higher the number, the smoother the wood can get (don't go straight to a high number, it will take hours).

All sanded? Nice!

Lets get polishing with your choice of finish! This is pretty easy and a technique I've tried is by far my favourite. Before I say this is a method I use with beeswax and haven't the if it will work with any other finish... Sorry! Think of the wood as a human, don't just push the beeswax down the wood's throat but slowly let it take it from you. Don't push it in but slowly let it slide on with a little bit of touch.

Given all steps have been followed it should look a bit like mine!

Well done, you've made a bowl