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Maple Bowl with Walnut Inserts.

I had been wanting to try some veneer between the layers of a bowl but didn't like the price of the veneer or the fact that the veneer wasn't a solid piece but rather in narrower strips. So bought a riser block and decided to make my own bowl inserts for between the layers. These inserts are solid wood with no seams and re-sawed on the band saw and planed to a finished size of 1/4 inch thick. Finished bowl is 12 1/2 inches in diameter and 5 1/8th inches tall. With the forum's help have gotten some great tips on how to plane these inserts up to 1/8th inch for future bowls. :)

Thanks for looking.

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Master CarpenterPermalink Reply by SQ on February 20, 2012 at 1:10pm

John,

Thank you very much.

Today we are trying to add to our existing sled so I can cut wood at 15 degree angles. The plan is that if I I cut out 12 of these pieces of wood with a 15 degree cut on each end, they should make a complete circle with tight miters. Just tried it and the angle is off a bit, so the 12 pieces of wood do not fit together correctly. :( Eric just went up to get a better angle gauge for us to use. The plan is to replace one of the rings in the bowl with a segmented circle I've created with the 12 pieces of wood. These segmented circles could give more flexibility in design is my hope. Once we get the board correctly attached to the sled the fun will begin. Wish us luck! I hope I have explained this well enough that it makes sense. I'm going to add some pictures which I'm taking now.

John Moody said:

Wow and wow Susie. That turned out great. Resawing those sure gives it a real uniqueness. I really like the detail it adds to the bowl. It finished up very nicely also. I thought I was going to get the rings cut for one this weekend but I had a couple of things come up and didn't get them. I will soon though as I want to give this a try.

Again, very nice job. Absolutely beautiful

John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

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