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    Chucking, Turning and Finishing Cored Bowls

    Aug 30, 2019 4 minutes
    By Ernie Conover

    In this third part of my burl series, I’ll overview how to do the final turning of core separations by showing how I dealt with the three bowls I cored out of a cherry burl in my August 2019 article. I showed the harvesting of that burl in the first installment (June 2019).

    This job entails a thorough understanding of chucking and, while I will use four-jaw scroll chucks in the article and video, a glue block would work just as well. It is possible to keep chucking recesses on the largest bowl in any coring for the simple reason that it must be chucked to

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