Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

Once all the walls were flat and smooth and all the layers were glued on the bowl could be given its final shape.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999. Prepare a sled for the planer. Stacked ring lamination. In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash.

I intend to add a piece of wenge to the base so i added a strip to build up one side. No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way. Bowl from a board band saw method piece. 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.

I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section. However the bfab blank can be anything from a raw board to a complex glue up as illustrated below. Home about galleries sales gallery itinerary december 2017 laminated bowls. Bowl from a board.

Hot melt glue the base to the sled and run though the planer with a final pass though a drum sander. After shaping and sanding the bowl will be reversed using bowl jaws and. I used my lathe to smooth o. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe.

He had advanced a technique based on construction methods used in the salad bowl industry. Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds. Stack laminated rings make bowls with huge possibilities in colorful exotic woods.