Amazing skill and patience. Sitting here at 8am on a cold, dark, wet Scottish morning, with a coffee, enjoying watching a craftsman working. I'm now inspired to go out to my cave later and make a shelf.

These go to 11. Love it.

@SASSYPREPPYS

3 жыл бұрын

Why didn't he just make 10 longer?

Wow, the camera shot that shows what you are trying to do really helped me understand what you are trying to do while making a sphere. It also made it very clear how easy it would be to just continuosly be chasing the sphere.

Frank; your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. I wionder how often you resharpen your turning chisels off-camera? I'm sure they're the secret to perfect lathe-work.

Love the sphere. That was a great idea. Your comment about gloves using the disk sander reminded me of an incident I had 40 years ago during my machinist apprenticeship. I had some small metal pieces I was deburring using the large disk sander. The pieces were getting hot, so I used a shop rag to hold them. The loose end of the shop rag got sucked into disk and exploded. Luckily I didn't have the rag wrapped around my hand. The rag was red and there was red snow all over the shop. That was the last time I did that.

Your video titles are always an underestimation. Every single time I think "Well, making a big sphere. We've had enough of that". Then I think "It's Frank, he wouldn't put a boring video out". I'm never disappointed.

Wonderful. You are definitely the best thing on KZread. Thank you for sharing

@frankmakes

3 жыл бұрын

Aww

Wow! That looks way better than I anticipated! Finish really is magic

The level of dedication when editing the video is it's simply unbelievable. Things that look simple are actually eating soo mush time and the fact that you are actually take your time to move the camera, work, move the camera and soo on and then edit it all deserves appreciation. I am looking at you videos for quite some time and and this is by far my favorite Chanel.

@paulmarmureanu4985

3 жыл бұрын

I hope that what I just said makes sense. English is not my first language. :)

@paulmarmureanu4985

3 жыл бұрын

That and your Chanel pushed me to star working with wood and I just love it

Stellar work again. Great idea book matching the grain patern across the sphere. I want to stare at it in person for about 20 minutes.

Wow. I am always amazed by your sharing. This is a fabulous example of whimsy led creativity. Your editing is extremely skilful. I found you via Rainfall Projects and I have stayed because of ideas like this one.

The sphere turned out super. Unique and beautiful.

I love that you put so much time, effort and skill into making something which is completely useless: stunningly beautiful, probably wonderfully tactile, but utterly pointless. I love it!! 👌👍 I suppose, thinking about it, if something is this decorative - it isn't pointless.😁

the ability to hunt down your years old footage baffles me, keep it up mate

You bring the mind of a mathematician and the skill of an engineer to the art of carpentry.

The Wonderful Whimsical World of Frank Howarth.

Can't beat a woodworking video with a cameo by Nigel Tufnel!

I finally got what you meant when you say “take off half of the difference.” That visual with he arrows helped a lot!

Beautiful! My boys and I love watching your videos!

Who can watch this and give it a thumbs down??? Another cool innovative project!

I think you should take this as a design basis for a bowl or storage container rather than just an ornamental object. Carry the "seam" further up from the center on one "side" but don't glue it in place and allow the top portion to be separated. The ridges will prevent the lid from sliding off and you have the perfect place to hide any number of things (candy, coins, lint...whatever you want) from those that are unaware of the functionality of the sphere! You could also create interlocking bowls that nest together but can be separated when needed. Looking forward to more!

I liked this sphere very much, each one seems to get better and better.Keep experimenting.

Thank you for sharing your projects. Your videos are some of the best on you tube.

That should be in an art gallery!!!

I love your work, expertise and storytelling. Excellent work. Merry Christmas.

I enjoy your chuckles and non-technical terms like " bumpy bits" etc, Frank. That was an amazing project! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Awesome. I love your creativity and your turning skills. Thanks for sharing.

New favorite turning project.

Nice! Frank, there is a simple method for getting an absolutely true sphere. The trick is to take a funnel large enough to contain about 2/5 of the final sphere and mount it on the drive side. Then coat it with fairly course sandpaper on the inside. Take a similar funnel and mount that on the stationary side and coat with the same sanding paper. Put your sphere-to-be in between and let the bench rotate slowly at first until it rotates of its own. Then crank up the revs slowly and wait until purely spherical. Than finish-sand and finish. (Does produce a shit-load of dust though) Cheers, Dick

I always love celebrating over hiding! Absolutely beautiful!

@frankmakes

3 жыл бұрын

Celebrate!

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankmakes hi Frank As usual a pure pleasure to watch your videos May I ask you if you would sell this work if art? Regards form Vienna austria Tobias

I like the spherical shape. The lighter colour of the insert sets the grain off well. I think it gives an extra dimension to the whole.

you really enjoy life and what you do man im really glad for you

Your projects, your editing, your narration all have a beautiful magical touch from the beginning to end. I love your content so much! Merry Christmas to you and your family good Sir!

@jesper1406

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree with you...

Just amazing. Your projects are beyond amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the pinal tap reference! Loved it!

thanks Frank. Your narration is fantastic

Beautiful as always

Frank, conceptually really cool. I like the idea of re-creating the matched sphere from two separate pieces. Maybe take it to next step with a third wood or original wood in the stepped band.

I really like the juxtaposition of the very human 90* angles of the lighter wood and how they're seamlessly part of a very natural looking perfectly imperfect grain of an old tree. I wish I could read those rings sometimes. Just to know it's story. Sometimes you see a little divet in the rings and you think maybe the tree was injured and then it took 12 years to recover. Or whatever the case may be. Really cool video as always Frank.

@NOLAMarathon2010

3 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough, degree symbols can be produced by Alt+0176---> 90°.

It's been really awesome watching your evolution over the years in how you apply your skills to the craft. I remember watching your first video attempting a ball of wood and talking about chasing spheres. Now you're at a point where the lines between wood working and artistry are blurring even further. Not so much being concerned with things looking perfect and traditionally pleasing to the eye, but taking risks and making things because they're "interesting" and creating beautiful new things in the process. The added benefit of them looking amazing is gaining even further abstract ideas like making a bowl with spikes in a future project. These are the reasons i love this channel. From cabinetry for your pantry, to wild bowls, and abstract spheres. It's more like wood sculpting rather than wood working at this point.

It looks like Jupiter! I love it!

Great job. As it spins on the lathe it looks a bit like Jupiter. Might be an idea for a sphere turning project to use up scraps.

Stunning work. A couple of thoughts: 1. It's be interesting to see if and how metal work edge finders would go in your CNC. Wood isn't that precise normally, but it might be useful for jobs like this where the precision does count. 2. I reckon that same idea would work well with a sinusoidal rather than stepped profile. The joint is still expressed but it fits in overall with the natural grain a bit more. Ditto for the joint between halves. Would take a lot of time on the CNC thougj to get it smooth. 3. Would love to see some how to vids on some of the other stuff in your shop, maybe in a second channel. Vid one could be your SNES CNC controller 😀

STUNNING!! Magnificent piece.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍❤️

Hey Frank, here's a quick tip if I may: before putting the sphere between the cups you can mark the center of the sphere doing a shallow groove with a narrow parting tool instead of using the pencil. Then you rotate the sphere 90 degrees when putting it between the cups, making sure you have the groove parallel to the bed of the lathe. Now you start turning until you get to the bottom of the groove, that is your reference. In this way you know you have a perfect sphere of the size that you decided, without having to pay attention to remove only the high spots. Hope this could be helpful, beautiful video as always, it is thanks to you that I started turning and enjoy wood so much!!!

Frank, I really admire your craftsmanship! As I watched this video I realized how much thought must have went into creating the sphere. Amazing vision and fore thought. Always a joy to watch you create. Thank you for posting!!

Hi Frank, beautiful work, well thought out. However, I was almost sad to see the 'jagged' bowls disappear, and the 'handles' too. I thought maybe in the future you could make a more utilitarian creation, that would form two bowls with two handles on each. Hope this makes sense. A very happy Christmas to you and the family. Thank you for sharing your thinking with us.🙏🏻

This is a nice sphere. I'd like to see paired bowls made by cutting a sphere like this in half vertically.

The timing of your "These go to 11" edit is perfect :D

I'm never disappointed by your simply revolutionary use of the CNC table, you are an honor to the craft sir!

Beautiful. Kind of a ‘Pixel storm on Jupiter’

Your channel continues to bring joy Frank. Thank you for making us feel like a part of your workshop, the drive to create is always given a boost after watching. Happy Holidays to you and your family, look forward to '21 with all of the amazing makers out there!!!

Thumbs up, great project Frank as always !

Great video as always! But the spinal tap reference makes it a touch better than the rest! Lol

Born from curiosity, formed by skill, and a well-tooled shop. Fantastic results!

Does anyone else always make the “popping” sound out loud when Frank pops in the shot? Kinda like a game I play 😂. I have watched your videos for years now, and I have enjoyed every minute of it my friend! Have a Merry Christmas!

10:04 "But in this process, I don't really need to be dainty with the glue." Proceeds to be dainty with the glue. 😂😂😂

Love this project, the grain is so beautiful

I've heard you use the term "chasing the sphere to zero" and "taking off half the distance" throughout your videos. The visualization you showed this time with the shadow of the extra and the underlying solid sphere and the two arrows... that was excellent, and really helped those ideas click in my mind. I had heard what you said before, but this visual gave me a much deeper understanding. Thank you for that detail, it was great.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I hope you and your family have a fantastic Christmas.

Amazing how everything lines up with the creative ring between. Beautiful!

Outstanding job. Blows my mind.

A city skyline or mountain ridge could be an awesome use for this technique.

Frank always has such inspiring art/woodworking. Absolutely love following your channel.

Gorgeous sphere! I love the way you explain every step and the thinking process. I have all similar equipment and your videos just fill my head with more and more ideas. Great work. I look forward to the next project.

stunning work, so much respect for your knowledge and workmanship...

Commenting for you because the KZread algorithm is a dumpster fire. Beautiful work :)

Crazy amazing! Stunning even!

The way the light wood pushes into the darker wood made me think of a yang yang. I think a yang yang sphere would be a really interesting project.

Amazing to see how you leverage your CNC in your creative process!!

That is pretty neat. Like square Borg bits integrating into some organism. Accentuating the different inserts might also be really cool, if you want to take the effect even further.

This cherry is gorgeous! Beautiful project.

Hi Frank. By watching you on your exquisite work of making these spheres I was thinking that one cool idea would be to make them as a secret time capsules by putting some stuff in them.

Nice, great craftsmanship ship as always. 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

Amazing project as always! Thanks Frank!

I would love to see the same idea, but with a grain matched center ring, so it looks like you kind of wrapped one board around the middle instead of segmenting it. Not grain matched to the outer parts, just continuous with itself all the way around. Beautiful work as always!

Utterly brilliant in every way, as usual. Thanks Frank

Hello Frank, great project! You are an artist👌

I really like how this came out; as you say, the geometric pattern of the inset band really sets off the natural woodgrain of the two ends. Great video, Frank!

looks nice

Yes! Spikes! Interesting rims! I'm here for all of it!

@dwise571

3 жыл бұрын

And if you do one with spikes in the next few months it can be your Covid-19 Memorial Sphere!

Cool project! Interesting use of CNC also!

The "these go to eleven scene" made my day! Great work with the sphere Frank. :)

Always so happy when a new video from you comes out, Frank!

Excellent job - thanks for filming it all so well, too!

The grain of the two halves lines up really nice, very cool!

Love the spinal tap reference!

A top shelf maker!

This looks great Frank! You should do a seam that is asymmetrical that doesn't go straight across the middle. This also reminded me of a bowling ball and now I would love to see you make a bowling ball and pin set lol.

Gorgeous project.

That pattern would be great as just a bowl rim! Looks great Frank,

Always such calming videos

Way cool! Great edit. Thanks for sharing!

Another amazing project. Always glad to see when you have posted a new video. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

The quality of these videos always impresses me.

Hot melt glue would have been a quick way to attach the tabs to the ring. Love the sphere but you might consider mixing up the center segmented ring with varying height pieces like the upper and lower rings. My first thought was Jupiter. Merry Christmas 🎄

looks great Frank, very pleasing to the eyes, Happy Christmas to you and yours, and hopefully a better New Year.

Great project and sphere Frank! You are a huge inspiration for me. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. - Ed

Fascinating concept and great effort .. not quite my dream - a Pepsi bowl -- but great results.😃😃

Beautiful work, as usual. Keep it up.