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Max weight of a bowl?
I have some thick pieces of walnut that I have glued up to make a large
salad type bowl. It will be about 14-15" when I am done. This thing is heavy. To reduce the weight I cut the corners off with a bandsaw and also cut the inside out of the top rings. This helped but it is still fairly heavy (guessing 15+ lbs). I have turned a lot of things but have only turned small bowls up to this point (6" or so), so this is quite a step up for me. Couple questions: * How much weight is too much weight? I will be using a Jet 1442 lathe (1 hp). * How do you mount it best? Is just a face plate ok? I can't put it between spindles because it is too big, so I will be turning the head stock out away from the bed. My thought was to glue a 3/4+ plywood spacer onto the bottom and then use 1 1/2" screws so that it goes through the face plate, plywood and into the walnut a little (~1/2"). How big of face plate should I use? I only have a 4" one now - even if I put 8 screws into it, I think that might be not be big enough. Any other thoughts \ advice? Thanks Darren |
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