Turning a Block of Wood Into a Geometric Masterpiece! Another 4-Ways Challenge

I Turn a spherical Hollow Form for this month’s 4-Ways challenge to turn Geometric Shape into a box, a hollow form--- anything.
Be sure to check out the other project variations from my fellow 4-Ways Woodturning Collaboration partners from the links below:
Richard Raffan    • Richard Raffan turns an elm spatula pot fo...  
Sam Angelo    • Turning a Geometric Form: Sphere Box in Ac...  
Tomislav Tomašić    • Woodturning Nasty Imbuya Wood To Beautiful...  

00:28 What is a Geometric shape?
00:39 the wood
01:26 roughing the blank and add chuck tenon
03:20 make a spherical template
04:55 laying out my sphere
06:00 roughing out the sphere
09:51 drilling out the center
10:20 hollowing with ½” John Jordan hollowing tools
11:13 clearing chips
11:41 changing lathes to accommodate captive hollowing system
11:58 My Jamieson hollowing system
13:12 cutters used
13:30 laser hollowing
14:28 sharpening cutters
15:12 hollowing the bottom half
16:41 major skew up blooper!
17:19 refining the outside shape
21:00 shear scraping the outside of the sphere
21:40 power sanding the outside
22:00 turning a tenon on the bottom and parting off
22:53 turning the mahogany base
30:00 Wrap up

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