Peter Brown's ShopTime

Block O Sycamore Cut to about 8" on band saw Rounded out with roughing gouge. added 1/4 tenon for holding in chuck Then I used the division to drill out a depth hole for hollowing. I put a burr all around the edge for scraping the bowl shape from the inside.  Here is my hollowing tool. 1/2 round nose scraper. Hollowing endgrain sucks. It just does.... Took forever and I had a hard time getting a nice final shape. The bottom was a bit blocky, but with the lenght of my goblet and overhang of my scraper it was the best I could manage. I stuffed a shop towel in the bowl and shaped the outside about 30 minutes of sanding with 100 then 180. Again given the shape, getting to the bowls bottom was problematic at best. Added some BLO just to see. Not bad. spindle gouge detail gouge All done except a finish. I put a coat of wipe on poly. Will add 2-3 more before it comes inside.

There are few things as enjoyable as transforming something as dull as a 2x4 into something as interesting as a goblet. I turned it a bit different as I was just beginning to turn at this point. I turned a lot of the handle before scraping out the bowl. I got quite a bit of chatter during this. Something that would be minimized if I'd hollowed the bowl section first.