In this post, I’m going to focus on finishing the underside of a large bowl, which has been mounted onto the lathe with a faceplate. Turning on a faceplate is fairly straight forward during the rough turning process, but can present a few problems when remounting the blank and finishing.

Here’s a sneak preview of a new piece I’ve just been making. Pictured is a small natural edge yew bowl being turned on the lathe – it looks tiny compared to the one featured in my last blog post!

On my last blog post, I’d just finished chainsawing a rather large yew bowl blank ready for rough turning. It now needs to be prepared for mounting onto the lathe.

Back in January, I was lucky enough to acquire a yew tree and have spent many a day chainsawing and rough turning the timber. Most of the bowl blanks are now drying in my shed, but I’ve saved the largest piece of wood until now.