Richard Raffan gets four bowls from a short box elder log. @RichardRaffanwoodturning

Richard Raffan | Richard Raffan gets four bowls from a short box elder log. @RichardRaffanwoodturning | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 minutes ago.
In this, the first in a trilogy, you see in real time how I cut two blanks from a short log, then rough-turn each bowl, saving the inside of each for another two bowls. You see the four finished bowls at the end of the video. You can see these bowls being completed in:
youtu.be/LSZfSNHds64 and youtu.be/hxfvVILN0-k

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