Turning a bowl
First of all it is essential that you have the correct safety equipment ie. visor/goggles - I’m happier with a visor as it covers my full face and when bits fly off (and they do at times) I’d rather have teeth protected as well as my eyes a dust mask or extraction is rather important too. Of course a clean working environment is helpful....
Perhaps we’ll gloss over that one 
For most of this I’ll be using a large(ish) bowl gouge, along with a roughing out gouge and a smaller bowl gouge. This is the large bowl gouge…
It’s then a case of moving the tool rest into position and you’re good to go…
Starting off can be the most nervous time, as you are never sure if it’ll turn well or not, but there is only one way to find out…
Mounting the bowl blank on the lathe can be done in a number of ways, I’m currently using a screw chuck which as the name implies has a screw in it, basically you drill the relevant sized hole in your blank and twist it onto the screw chuck.
