Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

Prepare a sled for the planer. No matter how the blank is prepared the bowl is cut stacked and glued up in the same way. 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 used my lathe to smooth o.

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. Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999. Bowl from a board band saw method piece. I intend to add a piece of wenge to the base so i added a strip to build up one side.

Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds. Stacked ring lamination. Hot melt glue the base to the sled and run though the planer with a final pass though a drum sander. 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. Bowl as illustrated in the first picture below. Stack laminated rings make bowls with huge possibilities in colorful exotic woods. I use a technique sometimes called bowl from a board in which a single square section.

Home about galleries sales gallery itinerary december 2017 laminated bowls. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe. In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash.