Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

I intend to add a piece of wenge to the base so i added a strip to build up one side.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash. 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. After shaping and sanding the bowl will be reversed using bowl jaws and. Bowl from a board.

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. Home about galleries sales gallery itinerary december 2017 laminated bowls. Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999. Bowl as illustrated in the first picture below.

Prepare a sled for the planer. Stacked ring 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.

Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds. The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe. Hot melt glue the base to the sled and run though the planer with a final pass though a drum sander.

No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way. I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section. Bowl from a board band saw method piece.