W.Y.
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Sixty segment bowl from a board finished off this morning.
60 Segment Bowl
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glen r
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I like that William. What did you use to make the segments?
W.Y.
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A shop made segment sled .
Krash
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oh now you're just showing off.
Nice job Bill!!!
Nice job Bill!!!
Cwalker935
Member
Beautiful, great job. As an aside, I made a 60 segment for my parents in celebration of their 60th anniversary.
W.Y.
Member
Could we please see a picture of you 60 segment one.
As far as conventional segmentation goes this one would have been a 300 segment bowl because those are done by making separate rings and stacking them on top of one another . If I had staggered the rings , that would have shown up better.
I have made another board blank similar to this one except one type of wood is a different color . If I stagger the rings on that one after I cut them out of the board it will better show what I am describing .
With this one , it is a bowl from a board and I cut the 60 segments and glued them all up together into a flat board . Then when they were cut into rings to form the bowl there were five rings of 60 segments each for a total of 300 .
Cwalker935
Member
My bowl had 5 rings with 12 segments per ring. This was one of my earliest bowls and I was not happy with the shape of the bottom.
W.Y.
Member
That is a very nice bowl . Thanks for showing it . The shape of the bottom looks just fine to me.
I did a bunch like that making one ring at a time about 5 years ago . Would probably still be doing it that way except for the fact that I could not get enough for them at craft sales in my area to justify the extra time involved in making them .
The bowl from a board type like I am doing sell very easily at a much lower price . I have sold well over 300 of them since getting my RM and they take about 1/4 of the time to make .
Cwalker935
Member
Could you show the various steps in your bowl? I am not following your process.
W.Y.
Member
I did a complete tutorial this morning on that one in my Woodworking Friends site on my Turning Tutorials board . It has 16 pictures with commentary between each one . Would be too time consuming to copy the whole thing here and I refrain from posting links to my site or any other woodworking site because it is against the rules in most sites including my own unless pre-approved by the administrator.