Well, it has stopped raining, snowing, and being generally crazy with regards to the weather around here so I'm going to go down and take a look at the bowl.
In my last posting I indicated that I had hollowed it out more and here is a photo of that:
There is a problem here, however, and it's called tear out. The grain in this piece of wood ran straight across the blank and when I cut across the grain, the ends of the fibers tore instead of cutting cleanly across. Here is a photo of that. If you look at the center of the bowl wall you'll see a whitish area. That is torn grain.
There are several ways to deal with that-sanding, which can take a while to sand away, or you can stiffen the fibers with shellac or lacquer and then lightly re-cut the surface with a newly sharped bowl gouge:
And that's what I've decided to do here. I've sprayed some lacquer across the surface and it's going to dry and harden the fibers. Then I'll re-sharpen my gouge and gently cut the surface until it's smooth:
I'm going to let this harden and I'll be back a little later today to work on it more.
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