Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

Bowl from a board band saw method piece.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

Hot melt glue the base to the sled and run though the planer with a final pass though a drum sander. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe. The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode. In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash.

I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section. Prepare a sled for the planer. I used my lathe to smooth o. I intend to add a piece of wenge to the base so i added a strip to build up one side.

Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999. Bowl as illustrated in the first picture below. Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds. No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way.

Bowl from a board. He had advanced a technique based on construction methods used in the salad bowl industry. Inspired by some bowls i had seen made by michael mode a little while ago i decided to jump straight in at the deep end and make this 500mm 19 5 bowl using the surprisingly simple technique stacked ring lamination. Many years ago at an aaw symposium mike shuler a well known woodturner from santa cruz california demonstrated making a bowl with very little waste.

After shaping and sanding the bowl will be reversed using bowl jaws and. Stack laminated rings make bowls with huge possibilities in colorful exotic woods. However the bfab blank can be anything from a raw board to a complex glue up as illustrated below.