Bowl From A Board Stack Lamination

Prepare a sled for the planer.

Bowl from a board stack lamination.

Stacked ring lamination. 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. The bowl base was glued to a waste block which was then mounted to the lathe. 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 from a board. Home about galleries sales gallery itinerary december 2017 laminated bowls. Stack each layer up successively to go from flat board to 3d bowl in seconds.

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. He had advanced a technique based on construction methods used in the salad bowl industry. Stack laminated rings make bowls with huge possibilities in colorful exotic woods.

I intend to add a piece of wenge to the base so i added a strip to build up one side. 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. I used my lathe to smooth o. In conventional segmented ring construction many board feet of good wood goes into the trash.

Bowl from a board band saw method piece. The configuration below was inspired by michael mode and a bowl you can see on his web site www michaelmode. Shown below are some of my favorite bowls created since 1999.