Thread: 30 degree Segmented Bowl

Awesome...

Yes - that absolutely unreal. The work to prepare the blank must have been huge - let alone the turning.

Well done.

Cheers

Hell of a piece, very jealous.

Keep up the good work.

Matt.

Bloody great work. Maybe you could post some details about your joining method as well as how long it took to do.

Cheers

Kris

Originally Posted by silentC

Awesome...

totally awesome! looks a lot like southwestern native american pottery. Absolutely extrordinary. makes me want to learn how to use my lathe.
-Ryan

Oh, wow. Looks like something that should be in one of those displays in a palace somewhere.

Absolutely Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to get a lathe, one hell of an inspiration.

Gorr-dammmm-sucker. dats beaudiful, mate

Now pack it up real careful & send it to my wife she wants it!!!!!

Wow! Looks like a lot of time and patients went into it, something I lack.

Love the shape and mix of timbers also, well done.

Many thanx for your kind words. it took several hours all told, but over a months time to figure how to do it right and build it up. The first detail ring was cut on a Dewalt SCMS for all the angles and it was a mess. I started with the maple and a strip of mahogany and laminated them and then cut 32 pieces at 30 degrees. try to get the bands equal thickness.



for a ring of 32 pieces the angle must be 5.625 so had to use a disk sander and a new miter gauge by Jessem that can be set to this angle, after some fine tuning. Cut 8 pieces from scrap and then try the angle and see if these eight will fit in a framing square (90 degrees) if there is a gap then adjust the angle in or out depending where the gap is, inside or on the outside of the pieces.



once the angle is right then sand each piece to the angle, then carefully glue them together, making sure the "V" matches and the faces are aligned, i did 5 at a time, and secured them with a rubber band while the glue set. then glued 2 together to make 10. with 3 ten piece arcs and 2 seperate pieces -finally assemble the ring and again check for gaps and fine tune the last 2 pieces. glue it all up.


mount it on jaws and clean up the edges so its at right angle to the bed.



now the final diameter can be measured and then build the rest of the rings, which are only 16 pieces or 11.25 degrees, using same method to check angles etc. With purpleheart, sanding can burn the wood and form black glue joints, so have to be careful, clean the sanding disk with crepe and light touches so as to no heat the wood.

made one mahogany ring and glued it on the rough bowl and and then parted it in half and then put the detail ring on and then the other half of the mahogany ring, then more veneer, parting rings saves a glue up!

the small bands of veneer were applied one at a time,



here is the final assembly ready to turn, some of the "V"s were a bit off.



regards

Absolutely STUNNING!!!

Thanks for the run down Doc! you're an inspiration!
-Ryan