radius of dishing bowls

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 8:28 pm

Hi!

I'm considering having some dishing bowls machined out of stock. What radius do you think should be cut into the stock?

Steve

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losthelm · Post by **losthelm** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 9:59 pm

I think that the average is between 6-8 inches and one to 3 in depth.

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:18 am

Keep us posted on your progress. We like pics.

My steel bowl is a 1018 CRS. 6" dia. with a 3.5" radius. cut to leave a 1/4" lip.

Hope that helps, ever see a pic of my bowl?

Your local machine shop, with a CNC lathe can make short work of that.

Hal.

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 11:26 am

I'd love to see pictures of your bowl, and I will copy the design, if that's o.k.

I was going to have 2 or three made with different depths of bowl. I was going to have the machine shop that laser-cut my COP plates do it http://www.impulsemfg.com

Steve

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white mountain armoury · Sat Apr 20, 2002 4:04 pm

i have moved away from deep dishes, my main dish on my power hammer is about 4.5 in across, more subtle shapes are done on a small depression on my anvil.
I believe i posted pics of my setup a few months ago, i could measure lable and repost if you want

wcallen · Post by **wcallen** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:22 am

We use a lot of different dishes. Some of them have very precise radii to allow forming of specific pieces, others are just various depths to allow us to make lots of different shapes.

I don't have them here, but I think the 'bascinet bowl' was about 6" radius (somewhere between 5 1/2 and 6 I am sure).

Having both shallower and deeper is nice - I have more deeper ones than shallower ones, but that is the luch of the draw since I use the bottoms of tanks (actually about 3' of the bottoms of tanks - who needs bases or tables...).

Wade