These are a lot of fun to turn but make a mess.

[Sparkey]

[Scrappile]

looks real nice, my guess is epoxt?

[Sparkey]

7 minutes ago, Scrappile said:

looks real nice, my guess is epoxt?

Bowling ball.

[Scrappile]

WOW!

[Hawk]

Very cool, and practical too!  Nice work.

[Dan]

Very cool! I guess it is now a bowling bowl. 

[homebru]

Now my wife wants one

Nathan in kalamazoo

[Sparkey]

22 hours ago, homebru said:

Now my wife wants one

Nathan in kalamazoo

lol sorry

[TAIrving]

First question: how do you cut a bowling ball in half?

If we get past that part there will be more questions.  

[Scrappile]

36 minutes ago, TAIrving said:

First question: how do you cut a bowling ball in half?

If we get past that part there will be more questions.  

There are several videos on youtube, I would have thought you cut one in half with a bandsaw.  but I would have been wrong.  Makes sense how it was done here, gives more control on how you shape the bowl.

 

[Me and my buddy]

nice work! looks great!

[TAIrving]

Thanks Paul @Scrappile, great video.  Something to think about.  Looks like good fun.  He said that some bowling balls might have asbestos in them, I wonder how we could know if it did.  And it caused a lot of wear on his cutting tools.  Might be a reason to get a carbide tipped tool.  

[Sparkey]

I doubt you will find one with asbestos. The inner part was hard on the tools. It was like hard cork or pressboard. I had to sharpen my big scraper 4 or 5 times to get down to the outer color. The color part cuts easy with a negative rake scraper but you have to go slow.

[TAIrving]

Thanks Rusty @Sparkey.  It still looks like good, messy fun, just like a lathe project should be.  It is on my list of things I might like to do some day.