Bowls 2003, Part 1
01 / 19
The AAW (American Association of Woodturners) ran a contest for the June symposium titled "Put A Lid On It". I entered two pieces and both were accepted. the piece above is made from a burl with a maple top. I think it is the nicest piece I have done to date.
02 / 19
The base is 4" diameter and about the same height. The top is 6" diameter. conceptually it was easy. getting it to fit and stay fit was a bear.
03 / 19
The concept behind this piece was "Put a lid ON it/Put a lid IN it". This was even harder than the first piece. Probably the most technical piece I have done. It is made from 2- 12"x 2" pieces of mahogany. There is no gluing on this piece.
04 / 19
The first picture has a piece of plastic in the center to show how the half's come apart. Some of the sections are as small as .050" thick (1.3mm). there is not much more to say other than it took 3 attempts to get it right. This is the assembly with the top on the bottom (obviously).
05 / 19
When the top is turned upside down it fits into the bottom. When the piece dried it turned out that it only assembles one way. Fortunately both blanks came from the same board so they shrunk evenly. Although the wood is kiln dried a shrinkage of .050" is deadly!.
06 / 19
This bowl is Paduk and maple. About 8"d x 6"h. The detail of the key is one of the best I have done. The top is one piece, no glue. Better yet, I love the form. It looks good no matter how you hold it. This piece and two others will be in the delMano June 2003 Show.
07 / 19
Detail of the key. The inner ring is elevated about .050"
08 / 19
Bloodwood and maple. I have recently been rounding the petals. I like the softness it adds. This bowl is 8" d and 3" h.
09 / 19
If you take the Paduk bowl, 3 pictures back and invert the top, eliminate the spout you get this. They are both outgrowths of the lidded bowls. This one is black Acacia and Maple. The inside as you look through the carving, has been painted gold. Future insides will be gold leaf. Much shinier.
10 / 19
This bowl and the one in the next frame are similar. The petals have the same relationship to the base. I got carried away with this one in attempting to get it thin. It started to break up at .040". The reason it is here is that it provides a good comparison with the bowl in the next frame in which
11 / 19
I rounded off the petals. I would be interested in receiving emails as to your opinions and suggestions. Both pieces are made from the same piece of curly maple and are 4"d x 2"h.
12 / 19
This piece was actually made before the Bloodwood and maple bowl a few frames back. the form is similar in that one center is forward of the face and one behind. It is about 6"d and 2" h and made from Amboyna burl.
13 / 19
This piece is about 5"d and 1"h. It should have been higher but I again got carried away with thinness. Each of the crenellations requires 5 cuts, so there are 120 cuts in total. Someday I will go back and redo it. Some day....
14 / 19
This piece is 10"d and 3"h. It is made from the walnut tree I got a few years ago. The insert is maple with a bloodwood insert in that. the pattern is interesting in that the crenellations form a key, exterior of the piece.
15 / 19
The insert required compound cuts and flexing the maple. The bloodwood was turned, sliced and inserted. Much fun.
16 / 19
This piece is made from Mazur Birch/ Yellow Prickel and Ebony. It is 7"d x 4"h. I don't turn many finials. The challenge here was to get the finial to support the shape of the top.
17 / 19
This is a detail of the intersection of the pieces.
18 / 19
The next 2 pieces are "in development." This one was made with the bowl rotating as the cut was being made. The problems are overwhelming. ZERO tolerance, start points and end points, indexing, wood movement....... Another project for the future.
19 / 19
This was neat -- up to a point. This can be duplicated easily, but I am not interested in the form. Look at the blow up of this. A lot of the sections are .040" The wood moved as I was cutting, and a whole section fell off, so I band sawed it to see the details. I hope you enjoyed this folder.