SteveJ
Member
I have always wanted to turn a southwestern style segmented bowl and thought I might be able to do something like it on a small scale. I started with a series of drawings I thought I could accomplish:
I needed two pieces of veneer or each square represented above. I could have used thin pieces of wood instead of veneer if I was willing to have more muted colors. My desire for bright colors dictated my use of dyed veneer.
I adjusted the width of the oak slices so that the final stick was 3/4 square (upon reflection I wish I had gone with maple instead of oak). I also chose to predrill the sticks thinking it would make alignment easier (it wasn't). The second pen I will show here actually has better alignment than the one I submitted for the contest. You can see in the slices that I didn't get the hole perfectly centered.
I then glued the slices together to form the designs.
As I stacked them together I found that keeping them in perfect alignment wasn't going to happen. So I twisted each design a little bit to give the final result.
Here is a simpler design which I think is nice and clean. I asked my family which one they thought I should enter and although I like this one better, I was outvoted!
And of course I had some failures:
I had a lot of fun making this pen and will make more with different designs. Thanks for honoring my work with a place in the IAP collection.
I needed two pieces of veneer or each square represented above. I could have used thin pieces of wood instead of veneer if I was willing to have more muted colors. My desire for bright colors dictated my use of dyed veneer.
I adjusted the width of the oak slices so that the final stick was 3/4 square (upon reflection I wish I had gone with maple instead of oak). I also chose to predrill the sticks thinking it would make alignment easier (it wasn't). The second pen I will show here actually has better alignment than the one I submitted for the contest. You can see in the slices that I didn't get the hole perfectly centered.
I then glued the slices together to form the designs.
As I stacked them together I found that keeping them in perfect alignment wasn't going to happen. So I twisted each design a little bit to give the final result.
Here is a simpler design which I think is nice and clean. I asked my family which one they thought I should enter and although I like this one better, I was outvoted!
And of course I had some failures:
I had a lot of fun making this pen and will make more with different designs. Thanks for honoring my work with a place in the IAP collection.
