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November 22, 2014by Sharif Adams - Woodenway Leave a comment

It feels important to share this. There are no spoons here or wooden bowls, but please read on… Two friends of mine have had a dream since they met to […]

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Sharif Adams - Woodenway

I liberate spoons and bowls from logs, then take them to artisan craft markets where they find new homes. I also run spoon carving and bowl turning courses in Devon, UK. For more information please see my website; www.sharifadams.co.uk

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So it begins. Another fun season of teaching has started for me. This last week saw lots of lovely people visit my workshop here on Dartmoor. One group bowl turning course, two one to one bowl turning courses, one handled bowl turning course and a hook tool forging course. Some were complete beginners, others seasoned green woodworkers. I am not in the habit of posting here each time I run a course or teach a workshop. I made a conscious decision a while ago not to. But I felt the urge to celebrate the first week of another busy cycle by sharing some pics today. I enjoy teaching immensely, and love to meet new friends and old. Nothing makes me happier than those moments during teaching when things suddenly begin to ‘click’. Kinaesthetic learning can occur in an instant, resulting in dramatically different results. It’s often accompanied by a big smile or a look of surprise on the face of the learner! I’d like to say a huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone, past, present and future, who have been on one of my courses, and to wish you all well as you continue to explore the highways and byways on your bowl turning journeys! #woodenbowl #polelathe #greenwood #hooktools #dartmoor #greenwoodworking

Last week I forged some end grain hooks for a friend, and as with all the tools I sell I tested them out on a piece of spalted beech to make sure they work as they should. Someone else has just asked me if standard bowl hooks can be used for end grain turning. They can be used, and I have used standard hooks for this in the past, but these hooks make life much easier. The tool with the zig zag shaped shank is a ‘boring’ tool, which dives in creating a channel below the core. When I turn end grain I usually bore in about an inch or so at a time. The other tool then goes in to the deepest part of the channel and cuts outwards, towards the rim of the cup, hollowing and thinning the inside wall, in the opposite direction to how a bowl is turned. This works better with the grain direction and allows for a nicer cut on the inside wall. I call this tool a politicians hook, because it is both ‘bent and twisted’. The video shows the politicians hook in use. So I repeat the process, diving in with the boring tool an inch or so at a time, then cutting out with the politicians hook, then diving in another inch etc. Until the required depth has been reached and the inside wall thickness is where I want it. I owe thanks to Jarrod Dahl for this; he told me about a power lathe turner called Andre Martel who designed an end grain hook, which is where the shape for the politicians hook comes from. There are video on YouTube of Martel using his hooks. The boring tool is a tool @jarrod__dahl designed, and he showed a few of us how it’s used when he came to teach a course in the UK a couple of years ago. I thought this might be of interest to others who may like to have a go at making and trying some end grain hooks; as well as answering your question Mike! #polelathe #hooktools #endgrain #woodencup #woodenbowl #greenwoodworking

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