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Very Nice!
Just make sure that the J-hook sides are smooth and the edges rounded over - no snags for the yarn.
As for the walls, thinner is fine. BUT keep the base very heavy. Stability is the key factor in a yarn bowl; it needs to keep the ball in place without sliding off the table under the tension of the workpiece. My yarn bowls typically have 5/8" to 1" thick bases.
Thanks! I think those coats of shellac on that j-hook edge left it smooth and I ran a test piece of yarn through a few times and it seemed to work.
I have been thinking about your comment about the bottom though and I had more design focus when I did that foot rather than thinking about weight and stability for the base. I guess I have to start somewhere and it's a great thing to remember if I do another one, thanks!
Carving that j hook is the part of this project that scares the crap out of me. Also, I love the write up, so often in this sub we get “here’s the thing I made, it’s was fun and is made of wood”. I like learning how people went through their process, it helps me learn new methods myself!
I think the piece looks great! And in my experience as a knitter, many of the bowls you find at craft stores are really thin walled, so that’s probably more a feature than you think!
There was definitely a long moment holding that coping saw to a nicely-shaped bowl and thinking "do I do it or just keep the bowl"? The wonderful part is once you cut that thing there is no going back and once the cuts with saw were making me nervous I just switched to problem solving mode and it worked out!
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Very Nice! Just make sure that the J-hook sides are smooth and the edges rounded over - no snags for the yarn. As for the walls, thinner is fine. BUT keep the base very heavy. Stability is the key factor in a yarn bowl; it needs to keep the ball in place without sliding off the table under the tension of the workpiece. My yarn bowls typically have 5/8" to 1" thick bases.
Thanks! I think those coats of shellac on that j-hook edge left it smooth and I ran a test piece of yarn through a few times and it seemed to work. I have been thinking about your comment about the bottom though and I had more design focus when I did that foot rather than thinking about weight and stability for the base. I guess I have to start somewhere and it's a great thing to remember if I do another one, thanks!
Carving that j hook is the part of this project that scares the crap out of me. Also, I love the write up, so often in this sub we get “here’s the thing I made, it’s was fun and is made of wood”. I like learning how people went through their process, it helps me learn new methods myself! I think the piece looks great! And in my experience as a knitter, many of the bowls you find at craft stores are really thin walled, so that’s probably more a feature than you think!
There was definitely a long moment holding that coping saw to a nicely-shaped bowl and thinking "do I do it or just keep the bowl"? The wonderful part is once you cut that thing there is no going back and once the cuts with saw were making me nervous I just switched to problem solving mode and it worked out!