So that piece of firewood was a sorry attempt but it was a beginning......

so it's time to start looking at upgrading our system.......

Let's first address the concept of  how to hold onto a piece of wood.........

One method is to glue a 3" disc to your blank and then screw the faceplate to the disc.

so we cut a few disc from 1" baltic birch plywood

 and glued them to the blank and let set overnight......

better make a few 'cause this takes a lot of time..........

so then you screw the faceplate to the inside of the bowl

 and turn & finish the outside of the bowl as much as you can

Once you've turned the outside, then you flip it, undo the faceplate and remount it to the sacrificial disc.

Now you're working on the inside of the bowl

After you turn and finish the inside,

you then separate the bowl and the disc with a hammer and a chisel.....

but now you have a bowl bottom that needs to be sanded and finished

...see where this is going???????

Nowhere!!!! because unbeknownst to us there was a much easier way....

but that's later in the EVOLUTION

.....so this works pretty good to this point...at least we're getting some results....

this bowl probably took about 3 hours

stay tuned for more of the EVOLUTION

Hey Billy...clean up for me will ya?

...I'm going online and then to the store......