Okie dokie Mikie, here is a tutorial from the start after rounding the blank. It is right now 5:03 pm. I started this about 4:15pm. It's taken me about 15 minutes to get the pictures downloaded and then resized for Lumberjocks to accept them.
This first pic shows the half log that has been rounded. It also has a couple dowels in it, but they will disappear.
The next 2 pics shows the contour of the log. If you notice, my Chuck Plate is what's holding it in at the headstock, and my live center is keeping it between centers. I call both the LC and CP "My" because I made both. I did some cutting on the face of the bowl as I wanted to see what kind of depth there would be for the bowl, and how tall the foot would be.
The next 2 pictures should show where the bowl ends, and the foot begins. Notice the area where bark used to be. That will be removed when I start the cut from the middle towards the foot.
Just for S&G's, I tried to make it look somewhat like yours did at the beginning. The foot is starting to get down to dimension. That's what I was trying to have you arrive at when I kept saying to remove the crack. Of course, there is much more to be done to refine all this.
The bulge has been removed, and now it's time to start defining the bottom contour of the bowl. Just turn up to the foot and stop. Repeat until you think the contour is right.
I don't know if you can see the pencil marf at the ftenon area. The tenon and foot OD has been determined, and will get that done.
Next is to refine the foot and make the tenon.
Foot is turned to the bottom edge.
Foot is now refined
Tenon recess is made. Tenon is 2 1/4" OD, and recess is large enough to have the chuck jaws fit flush at the bottom of the bowl.
Blank is mounted into the chuck, ready to remove the innards.
The blanks is now faced, and will remove the innards at a later date, possibly tomorrow.
This is as close to a step by step as I could come up with. I know it's short on detail, but you have been turning over 2 years now, and some of this should just be a refresher course in turning. Maybe it doesn't make sense to some, but that's the way I approach most half log blanks, unless it has some nice crotch feather, then I go from the bark inward.
Also, I'm not hijacking Mike's thread as I'm just
trying to give him instruction…........ Jerry (in Tucson)