Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

Bowl from a board presented to detroit area woodturners march 16 2014 roger j.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

However the bfab blank can be anything from a raw board to a complex glue up as illustrated below. Once all the walls were flat and smooth and all the layers were glued on the bowl could be given its final shape. No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way. Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999.

Rings from different boards can be exchanged. Stacked ring bowl basics earliest form of segmented woodturning rings are cut out of a single board objects can be from one board or many. The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode. I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section of a plank is cut into angled concentric rings.

Start with a flat board the size of the bowl or building a segmented circle form a flat board 15 degree pie or build a square blank from selected strips glued up. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe.