A bowl from a board

[Mack C.]

Charlie Clougherty aka NewLondon88 most graciously sent me a small board of marble wood.

This board measured approx. 5¾" sq. X ¾" thick.

I showed this board to a friend of mine who said if you send that to me I will turn you a bowl from it.

Here's the bowl. It measures about 5¾" in dia. and is about 2¾" high and slightly thicker than 1/8". I haven't had my hands on it yet. I'm not about to trust it to the postal service.

 

[bdonald]

That's neat. If it were me, I'd take it one more step and use a contrasting wood for laminating inbetween the layers that he did, but that's the nice thing about wood turning, we each can come up with something different and turn out something equally as beautiful. And darn nice of Charlie to send that!

 

[DocStram]

Did he use a Ringmaster? Or a bandsaw? In any case, it's a really nice looking piece of work.

 

[markgum]

yeah; how did he do that?? I have several 3/4" and 1" board that could be made into nice bowls. I've seen one way to use a dove-tail joint and to cut and glue circles from them. but since the one piece 'flew' off the router table when trying to cut it; put that idea on the shelf for a while.

 

[flyingmelon]

http://www.woodturningonline.com/Turning/Projects/bowls.html

If you scroll down there are a couple of different techniques to make a bowl from one board.

 

[markgum]

Thanks Russ

 

[nava1uni]

Thanks for this very nice website. It also had some good links.

 

[Mack C.]

For all those interested in a bowl from a board, here's a tutorial this gentleman has put together on a Woodworking site.

http://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/showthread.php?t=18252

I know this was one of his 1st attempts at a bowl from a board. He has branched far far out from where he 1st started.

I'm not in a position to answer questions regarding his methods etc. but will pass them on and I'm certain he will answer.

 

[NewLondon88]

Beautiful.. that really turned out nice