Making a Hand-Hewn Wooden Dough Bowl (Part 2) - FAILURE

in #woodworking7 years ago

This is a continuation of my attempt to make a hand-hewn wooden dough bowl using only hand tools. You can find the first part here.

Well, you can probably tell from the title how this project ends. I was really hoping to make a beautiful and functional large dough bowl. I had the outside of the bowl all carved out using an ax and saw rasp. And then I began to do the inside...

For carving out the inside, I used two different tools:

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a chisel gouge

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a bowl adze

And believe me, it was slow going! This was my first time using a bowl adze, and I thought that I would be knocking out large chips and making short work of the interior of the bowl. Boy was I wrong! The chips were the tiniest little chips. Maybe it was the weight of my bowl adze, or maybe it was the hardness of the wood (white oak), I am not sure. But anyway, I was determined, and so I chiseled away a little at a time. And then...

...the wood suddenly felt different. I am not sure exactly how to describe it, but it just didn't feel quite so solid - there was a tiny measure of give with each whack.

I paused for a second, and then I took a look and found this:

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A crack from the edge...

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...that continued down the whole length.

Noooo.... That crack ran the entire length of the wood from one end to the other. And that would explain the not-quite-so-solid feeling.

So, anyway, here I go back to square one.

I do have a couple questions for you woodworkers out there:

  • Is there a better hand tool for chipping out the inside of the bowl?

  • Any suggestions for working with white oak? I have a lot of it on my land, so it is what I have available. Any more suitable wood for making bowls that you have found?

Let me know in the comments below! Thanks!

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