Wood Turning a Bowl: Measure With Caliper

Video Transcript

"Remember that you need to touch your work because that is where you get a feel of a nice smooth line and feel any bumps but for thickness sometimes it is hard to judge with your fingers so I'm going to use some calipers. What I've got here is some double ended calipers. Now there is this end here and this end. If I open this up 3/4's, then this opens up 3/4's and visa versa. The nice thing about these calipers is that this will go into skinny long vessels, this end will and this is made for more of open bowls. So we'll take our calipers here and you can see them while they are right here. Now where I read it is going to be right here and I can see that that wall thickness is about oh, a strong 1/4. I will start to move that down, not really paying attention too much here as I am here. I will move it down a little bit and it has gone just a little narrower, that's what I want. Now it starts to go back out. So it means I have got plenty in the bottom. You can kind of see that I want to try to get that down here and clear into here as best I can to get that measurement. So it looks like I can take a little bit more out of the bottom. The side wall looked really good. So I'm going to switch tools now that I am in the bottom. I am going to use my big heavy scraper and cut from here about up to here and the scraper does a really good job on flat grain but when it comes over to here where you have got end grain and side grain, it has a tendency to tear. So we'll pick up the big scraper and go to it."