The making of a wooden cup...

The making of a wooden cup...  I used the time-lapse video feature on my iPhone to make the

video at left.  It compresses about an hour's work into just 24 seconds – but you do get a good idea what I do to turn a cup.  In the photo at right, the right-hand cup is the one I turned yesterday; the left-hand cup is the one I did today (and the subject of the video).  On this cup I did make fairly thin walls – about a tenth of an inch all the way down.  I had no problems at all, to my surprise.  It looks to me like if you have a good, dry piece of fine-grained hardwood, you can quite easily turn it down to quite thin walls...