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BOWL -- TURNED xx BOWL xx TURNING Dream vessels. Tips on turning a "wing" shaped bowl and matching lid. The resulting vessel is open on two sides. Christmas bowls. Turn a thin (3/4") board into a 2"- to 3"-tall bowl using the stacked ring technique to form the blank. Makes bowls from 4" to 7" diameter with little wasted wood. Small covered sewing box turning project is a variation on a goblet, bowl or lidded box. The steps for making the blank and turning stacked-ring bowls. Turn a mirror box. A small wooden bowl (4" diameter) features a fitted top with a mirror glued to the inside. Bowl-turning basics. A step-by-step approach to making wooden bowls on a lathe. Turning stack-laminated bowls. How to make wooden bowls from band sawn rings. Tip on cutting mitered segments to glue up for bowl turning. Harvest your own wood for bowl turning. How to select, store and turn bowls from green wood. Turning antler. Photos show how to turn a small natural-edge bowl from an elk burr. How to turn and finish a salad bowl in one day. Turning wooden bowls with no sign of having ever been mounted on a lathe by using the reverse mounting technique. Plywood disc (faceplate) with profiled jaws is used to grab almost any wooden bowl so that the bottom can be easily turned. Sculptured wood slat bowl is made from pine slats. Est. cost: $5. Wooden fruit-shaped bowls cut from pine. Est. cost: $13. Salad bowl is made from concentric wooden rings. Salad servers are made from dowels and wooden blocks. Est. cost: $26. Faux-redware bowl is created by painting a purchased wooden bowl. Wooden bowl and serving tray are turned on a lathe from a blank consisting of laminated wood in various colors. How to turn a large bowl from a small amount of wood. Involves drawing concentric circles, band sawing them at a 45-degree angle, and laminating the circles of wood into a bowl which is finished on a lathe. Use your lathe to turn a patterned fruit bowl from a glued-up, six-sided box. Tip on mounting a wood bowl for inside and outside turning. Green-wood bowl turning. Finish turning a roughed out bowl. Turning bowls from burls. How to cut bowl blanks from a log. Segmented bowl turning involves gluing together various shapes and sizes of different woods. Each layer is added and turned before the next layer is added. This makes it easier to hollow out a wooden vessel (vase) and makes for more interesting and uniform layers. Wood turning a hollow burl to make a large bowl. Part 1. Wood turning a burl to form a bowl with an uneven decorative edge. Wood turning a hollow burl to make a large bowl. Part 2. A new approach to turning large bowls out of green wood. Involves roughing out the piece and allowing the blank to dry before finishing. Reincarnating hockey sticks. Create beautiful projects using old hockey sticks and a little imagination. Includes patterns for turning a peanut bowl and a "curling rock" bowl. Turning a bowl from the burl section of a grey gum eucalyptus tree, a native of Australia. The outside of the bowl is left in the natural shape of the burl. Thin-walled wooden bowl turned from English yew. The edge follows the natural shape of the blank from which it was made. Large wooden harvest bowl is turned on a lathe. After turning, cracks are sawn open with a coping saw to become part of the design and to relieve stresses along the edge of the bowl. Turning hollow. Part 1. A solid block of walnut is roughed out to shape, divided into two, and the base hollowed out. Turning hollow. Part 2. Top is hollowed out, base and top are joined and bowl is textured in the center area. Polychromatic turning. Part 1. Step-by-step instructions for laminating a stacked blank and rough-turning it to make a bowl. Polychromatic turning. Part 2. Round picture frame and bowl are turned from the multicolored blank. Speckled grass-tree root is turned into a shallow bowl with a natural edge. Turning a shallow fruit bowl. Large wooden salad bowl is turned on a lathe from a 6"-deep x 12" diameter piece of burl. A look at early American treenware (objects carved from a single piece of wood). Article includes instructions for carving a treenware bowl. Making a wooden doughbowl. Hand-hewn bowl is made from a section of tulip popular. Beginners guide to bowl turning from green wood. Gluing up and turning bowls which resemble Indian baskets and pottery when completed. A 14" diameter bowl, 4" deep, has a top ring of walnut, a middle ring of alternating "checkers" of walnut and teak, and a bottom of teak. Cutting and gluing of blank and turning of finished piece are illustrated. Est. cost: $10 Green bowls. Wooden bowls are easier to make and the supply of wood more plentiful, if you turn green (unseasoned) wood, dry it yourself, then finish the bowl by turning again. Tips on locating sources of wood, turning and drying. A master wood turner discusses the use of exotic woods in making bowls and trays. The bowl gouge. Tips on selecting and using the long-and-strong "bowl gouge" to turn the outside of wooden bowls. How to turn the inside of wooden bowls on a lathe with a minimum of problem. Covers the correct use of tools and correct pattern of cut. A test of the water resistance of various nontoxic finishes applied to wooden bowls. The finishes include both urethane and natural types. Other tips for finishing wooden salad bowls. Laminated turnings. How to lathe turn bowls from laminated rings or wedges. How to turn bottles from tall laminated staves. How to prepare laminated blocks of various contrasting woods as the first step in turning decorative bowls. Tip: Rough out wood bowls by standing with your back to the lathe and cutting from small to large diameter. Harvesting green wood for use in turning wooden bowls. Where to find the most interesting wood, how to prepare it and tips on seasoning the wood after green-turning. Turning hollow bowls requires total concentration and some of the special bent tools and techniques described in this article. Includes tips on turning rotten wood to produce bowls with decorative openings incurred in the block of rotten wood. Tip: Using double-sided tape to hold bowls on a wood lathe faceplate. Tip: How to laminate 6-sided blanks for turning wooden bowls. The individual sides are themselves made up of laminated wood to produce a multi-color, repeating pattern effect in the finished bowl. Photos illustrate the techniques and man-powered lathe used by an Ethiopian bowlmaker. Turning full circle. How to cut apart circular turnings and reassemble them into new shapes. Offers a technique for achieving unique designs in bowls, sculpture, etc. The legacy of Harry Nohr. How to lathe turn very thin wooden bowls and finish them with epoxy to impart strength and flexibility. A tool rest and turning tactics for outboard turning of very thin wooden bowls. Tip: Use a curved cabinet scraper for the final shaping of bowls and other faceplate turnings. Tips for attaching bowls to faceplates in order to minimize the effort involved in finishing the base. Tips for minimizing tear-out problems when turning bowl blanks made from laminated segments. Tip: How to clean up the bottom of bowls turned on a lathe faceplate. Tips on finishes to use on wooden salad bowls. Turning for figure. Some design considerations when making wooden bowls. Considerations which should be given to the grain and figure of the wood being worked. The turned bowl. A brief look at the history of turned wooden bowls along with several examples of todays trends in bowl turning. Dough trays. The Southern tradition of making and using handmade wooden bowls. Turning a matched set of bowls. How to use patternmakers' tricks for consistent shapes. Walnut-oil finish is safe for food. Wooden bowls are formed from single, flat boards that are band sawn into tapered concentric rings and glued together. Final shaping is done with abrasive disks. Bowls need not be round. Turning giant bowls (up to 40" diameter). Ed Moulthrop's tools and techniques. Includes details of homebuilt lathes specifically for large faceplate turning. Tip: Eliminate checking on green bowl blanks by storing them in your freezer. Disk sander sculpts turnings. A way to cut spirals on the outside of bowls without an ornamental lathe. Uses freehand-carving on the edge of a disc sander. The bottom line for turned bowls. How to turn wooden bowls using the versatile chucking plug. This allows you to turn a bowl bottom of any shape without leaving a clue as to how it was attached to the lathe. A shop made adjustable chuck for finishing the bottom of a wooden bowl. Tip: Use a foam covered faceplate to grip the rim of a wooden bowl when turning the foot of the bowl. Use a "Universal Chuck" with an expanding collet to hold the circular blank when turning wooden bowls. Decorative turning. Router jig attaches to a wood lathe. The router swings in a pivoting cradle to cut designs into the outside of a wooden bowl. Tip: Use double-sided tape to clamp wood to faceplate when turning bowls. Segmented turning. Redefining an old technique. How to make a turned, segmented, hollow wooden bowl is illustrated step-by-step. Description of a hand-operated "fluting engine" for carving the inside of decorative wooden bowls. Tip on laying out and carving spiral flutes on the outside of wooden bowls. Bricklaid bowls. Turning large bowls. The laminated turning blank is made by stacking rings of various diameters. The rings (polygons) are made from small straight wooden segments which have been mitered and glued together. Also includes instructions for making turning blanks using the "tapered stave" technique. Carved bowls. Flutes and other textures are carved on turned wooden bowls to enhance the basic shape. Carved handles and feet for wooden bowls. Some tips. A boatbuilder's bowls and vases are inspired by shells picked up on the beach. After turning, the bowls are slit, boiled in hot water, and formed into unique shapes. Tips on bleaching green maple and elm bowls to a bone-white patina. Segmented turning. Create unique, swirling patterns in turned bowls by cutting wooden wedges and assembling them into circular blanks. The circles are cut into rings and assembled to form the turning blank. Natural-edge wooden bowls are turned from blanks cut from a section of log. The bark is left attached to form the "natural-edge" of the resulting oval-shaped bowl. Turning bottoms of wooden bowls. How to tape a finished bowl to a faceplate (jig) and turn the bottom to follow the bowl's inside contour. Multiple-segment turnings. Designing with structure and color. How to layout and assemble segmented bowl turning blanks that combine wood of various color, shape, thickness, etc. Method for ripping short logs on a band saw to make bowl blanks. Bowl turning with a glue block. Using fast-setting glue and a stub tenon to secure a work piece for faceplate turning. Tip on finishing the outside (bottoms) of turned wooden bowls by using hot-melt glue to attach the bowl to a plywood faceplate. Tip on trimming down and flattening the base of a turned wooden bowl using a router bit chucked in a drill press. Turning rotted wood into elegant bowls. Bowl-turning basics. You don't have to be a master on the lathe to turn a useful, handsome bowl. Step-by-step instructions. How to make a Popsicle stick fruit bowl. How to carve a hollow sphere cherrywood bowl using only wood chisels. Decorative wooden bowls are fabricated from blocks where dark wood has been laminated to a core of light wood prior to turning on a lathe. Turned bowl. Graceful and delicate pattern for a lathe-turned wooden bowl which features thin walls. Turned with flair. Martin Hultquist's process for coaxing delicately designed yet sturdy bowls from quartz, jade, and other gem materials. Inlaid wood fruit bowl turned on a lathe. Set of six wooden salad bowls turned on a lathe from six different woods. 3 ways to make wooden bowls. (1) Traditional lathe-turned. (2) Layered bowls made of rings cut from boards. (3) Turning bowls with a router. Treening, the crafting of wooden kitchenware. Includes salad bowl, tool caddy, cutting board, utensils and utensil rack. Wood turning lesson. Part 6. How to get more wood for your money. Instead of discarding the corners of bowl blocks, make candle holders. Do a rough cutout of the inside of the bowl with plug cutters and save the plugs for other uses. Use laminated blanks for bowls, instead of solid ones. Tips on finishing wooden salad bowls with mineral or olive oil. Tip: How to make an oval shaped wooden bowl by laminating together oval shaped "rings" about 1/2" thick which have been preshaped with a jigsaw (both inside and out). Oblong or "boat-shaped" wooden serving bowl has two compartments. It is carved from a decorative wood, like mahogany, and features simple designs carved on the outside edge. Overall dimensions are 15" long, 7" wide and 2 1/2" deep. How to carve a nut bowl. The bowl is shaped like a giant walnut with a section "broken" out of the upper half of the shell. The bowl is 9" long, 7" wide and 4" deep. Carved from basswood. Templates and techniques for laminating and turning church collection plates or wooden bowls which will stack (nest) one on top of another. Oval shaped wooden serving bowl measures 8"x14"x1" deep. On the rim are carved the German words: "Give us this day our daily bread". Chinese four-seasons wooden bowl for experienced woodworker. Bamboo fruit bowl. Turn a decorative wooden bowl, on a short pedestal, then install an inlaid wood picture on the outside of the bowl. Hollow out the concave cavity in a wooden bowl using a table saw and this simple jig. Wooden bowl turned from a light-and-dark wood laminated blank. Wooden bowl making techniques. (1) Carved bowl. (2) Band-sawn bowl. (3) Stacked-ring bowl. (4) Telescoping-ring bowl. (5) Laminated and turned bowl. Illustrations and instructions for turning bowls, candlesticks, vases and a gavel set from irridiated wood, called Novawood. Turning bowls on a table saw by combining coving-cuts across the blade and a pair of jigs to undercut the work and make outside cuts. Weird bowls. How to create turning blanks from laminated buildups of contrasting colors of wood. Unique shape of finished bowl involves cutting a conventional turning in half and reassembling into another shape. Turned and carved wooden bowl (12" diameter) is divided into four equal segments and can be turned from solid wood or from glued-up disks. Split-ring bowls. (1) Using the split-ring technique for making bowl turning blanks to economize on wood. (2) Turning the bowl. (3) Making a lid. A slick trick for turned bowls. Use stacked rings to cut down on turning time and wasted wood. Working wet wood. How to find, dry and turn wet wood. Includes tips on recognizing good wood and on selecting characteristics. Describes how a log moves as it dries, how to minimize splitting and a guide to safe thicknesses for drying various woods. Photos show step-by-step how to turn a wet wood bowl. How to make bowl blanks from flat wood using a band saw and a spiral cutting pattern. Low-profile wooden bowl with a top (5" diameter, 4" tall) can be turned from spalted maple, burls, striped laminations, etc. Wooden bowl (7" diameter) on a short pedestal base is filled with wooden "eggs". Turning instructions are included for both bowl and eggs. A single laminated block of cherry and walnut (11"x11") is used to form the outside of three turned bowls by cutting out three concentric circles. A wooden bottom is added to complete each turning blank. Tic-tac-toe turned bowl. Laminated wood blank for a wooden bowl results in a pattern of crossed lines that are offset from the center. Laminated bowl faceplate-turning project. Mahogany candy caddy (bowl) with a matching top. A faceplate-turning project. Bowl blanks and burls for wood turners. Tips on what is available and how it's sold. How to harvest your own bowl blanks from fallen trees and stumps. Basic stave-bowl construction. Create beautifully figured bowls with this centuries-old technique. How to fabricate the blank and turn the bowl on a lathe. A gallery-quality quilted maple bowl uses stave-bowl construction. Fruit bowl made from sassafras wood using stave-bowl construction. Results in a wooden bowl with distinctively patterned sides. Technique for making stack-laminated bowls. A Southwest-inspired wooden bowl is turned using stack-laminated techniques. A surefire technique for pleasing bowl design. How to adapt pleasing-to-the-eye pottery shapes to turned wooden bowls. Profiles of 13 bowl shapes included. Tip: Reinforce the lip of a thin wooden bowl with a strip of masking tape before hollowing out the interior. Drying green-turned bowls in a microwave oven. Tip: Use a tennis ball as a sanding block when sanding the inside of a turned bowl. Turning a pewter-topped potpourri bowl (3" deep, 6" diameter). How to make a sanding stick for working on the inside of a turned bowl or vase. An eight-step method for turning a bowl without an expensive chuck. Turned bowl made from 14-piece blank laminated from three different kinds of wood. Gluing jig helps keep edges aligned as you build a laminated bowl turning blank. A bird-in-the-hand ale bowl to carve replicates those used by Vikings a thousand years ago. Waste-wood wonders. How one wood turner makes elegent turning blanks for wooden bowls from scrap wood. Run rings around plain bowls. Get double duty from one bowl blank by cutting rings of wood out of the waste area and using those rings as decorative inlays in other bowls. Waterproof glue recommendations for stacked, turned wooden bowls. Tips on preparing laminated turning blanks for stave bowls to avoid joint-failure problems. Stacked-ring wood vessels (bowls, vases, urns, ...) are made using a saber saw, electric drill and a few sanding accessories. No lathe is required. Complete instructions provided. Reinforcing the bottoms of wooden bowls which have been formed by gluing up triangular segments. Tour-de-force tureen. Lovely lidded turned bowl (9.5" diameter) begins by making a staved blank from redwood burl and maple veneer. A treasure trove of tiny turnings (Southwest-style hollow vessels). Step-by-step instructions. Decorate turned wooden bowls by inlaying sterling silver wire or chain. How to turn a set of salad bowls with dovetail rims. Lathe artistry. How to make the blank and turn beautiful segmented bowls. Technique to support a turned bowl when parting it from the faceplate. Segmented bowls from Sedona. Tools and techniques of a professional bowl turner. One well-composed compote. A turned wooden bowl on a short pedestal base for serving fruit or candy. Hollowing out turned wooden bowls using a large Forstner bit. How to make a turned fruit bowl on a short pedestal base. The bowl is 11" in diameter and 3" deep. The pedestal is 2.5" tall. Popcorn bowl. Make a large (10" diameter) wooden bowl with a wooden top. The bowl is turned on a lathe using a staved-contructed blank. This technique minimizes the amount of expensive wood needed for large, cylindrical-shape bowls. Bowls by the nest. How to make a nest of wooden bowls from a single blank in order to save valuable wood. A look at available tools and techniques for this special task. Keeping the core. How to turn hollow wooden vessels (bowls) which retain pith as a major design element. Turning green wood into bowls. Advice on preparing the blank, turning, drying, finishing, etc. Simple support for trimming bowl blanks using a small chainsaw. Zest for zigzags. How to fabricate bowl turning blocks that include zigzag patterns of contrasting wood. The technique for cutting the zigzags in the pieces to be laminated is more involved than it appears. Elliptical wooden bowl is shaped by lathe-turning a cup with a profile of half an ellipse, splitting it longitudinally, and joining together the ends of the "cup". Forager's feast. Tips on turning wooden bowls from scrounged (often spalted) off-cuts found at a lumber mill. How to make a pattern block of different woods when fabricating segmented turning blocks for bowls or vases. How to make a bowl segment cutting jig to speed up bowl blank fabrication. Squaring up. How to turn a thin, sculptural, square-edged bowl. Tip recommends wrapping layers of cling film around a completed bowl exterior to protect bark intrusion while hollowing the inside. Getting started in wood turning. Part 11. Getting started in turning bowls. Instruction for beginning turners. How to turn a decent foot on a bowl. How to turn a medieval-looking bowl and age it with a blow-torch to make it look as though it was made in 1396. How to turn small wooden bowls. How to turn burr bowls where the outside is left natural. How to turn wane-edged bowls. How to turn a bowl where both inner and outer surfaces are turned and only the upper edge or rim remains natural or wane-edged. Plywood panache. How to make turning blanks for bowls and vases from stacked plywood rings. Tips on turning plywood blanks. Going square. How to turn technically challenging and aesthetically pleasing square-lidded pots, bowls, goblets, etc. Tip on holding log billets securely while chain-sawing them into bowl blanks. Tool truths. Part 12. End grain hollowing techniques. Experiment by making a small salt or sugar bowl and scoop. Tool truths. Part 13. Better bowls. Using the bowl gouge. Tool truths. Part 14. Better bowls (continued). Shaping the outside. Tool truths. Part 15. Better bowls (continued). How to hollow them out. Round the block. New series on blockwork (laminating wood to form a turning blank). Part 5. (1) Vertical press for clamping segmented rings together to form a turning blank. (2) Turning a ring bowl and miniature vase with bolection ring. Waney-edged work. How to turn a large, open, wane-edged bowl from green wood. Part 1. Put a handle on it. How to cut handle openings directly into the rim of wooden bowls. Tool truths. Part 17. Better bowls (continued). Improve your bowl turning by using a ground back gouge. Waney-edged work. How to turn a large, open, wane-edged bowl from green wood. Part 2. Round the block. New series on blockwork (laminating wood to form a turning blank). Part 7. How to make a bowl from 16 segments. Tool truths. Part 18. Better bowls (continued). Enhance your bowl turning by texturing. Tips on turning a large bowl supported by a skirt of interlocking sycamore leaves. How to make a wooden bowl which is supported by a pedestal and three legs. Bowl is 12" diameter, base is 9" diameter and pedestal is 8" long. Tool truths. Part 21. How to re-turn and true-up a dried wooden bowl that was originally roughed out while wet. Tool truths. Part 25. A shallow wooden bowl. A first turning project for beginners. Tip on conditioning bowl blanks that are cut from green logs. Big bowls for beginners. A cheap and easy way to turn a large farmhouse bowl on a medium-sized lathe. Antler for turning. Selecting and turning antler material from various animals (elk, deer, moose, ...). Part 2. Turning a natural-edge antler bowl. Turning a simple fruit bowl (11" diameter) from a piece of English cherry. How to turn a burr bowl from a walnut burl. Tip: Speed up the smoothing of end grain when turning wooden bowls by applying sanding sealer before making the final cuts. Technique for attaching a lathe faceplate to the bottom of a wooden bowl so that it can be easily shifted to center the bowl. Segmented turning. How to fabricate segmented rings of various woods and then stack the rings to form a turning blank for a large bowl. Turning mesquite to create natural-topped bowls with a rim of color. Turning defective wood. A challenging way to use rejects is to turn bowls or vases which have natural openings in the sides caused by rot, insects, etc. Turning bowls from green stock. Some tips. The steps in turning a wooden bowl are illustrated in photos. Bowlturning. Part 1. The first in a series of wood turning articles, starting with a look at the necessary tools. Includes instructions on sharpening gouges and scrapers. Bowlturning. Part 2. Step-by-step through the actual turning process is illustrated in pictures. Turning wooden bowls on a lathe. Tips on selecting and using bowl gouges. How to turn wooden bowls. Includes: (1) Face powder bowl with a lid, (2) open bowls, and (3) candle holders. Coopering on the lathe. How to turn wooden bowls, vases, etc. from blanks which are coopered (made up barrel-fashion from beveled pieces). The sympathetic wood turner. Turning a burr-elm bowl requires a highly refined technique. The bowl of the tree. Excerpt from the book "Wood turning and Design" looks at making elegant bowls from a section of cherry log. How to produce beautiful natural-edge bowls by turning green wood. Suggestions on alternative, less-expensive sources for wood blanks suitable for turning large bowls. Joined turning blanks. Making up wood turning blanks from inexpensive wood, such as pine, and turning distinctive bowls from them. Angled poise. Alternatives to traditional wooden bowl-making techniques uses angular shapes, gouging out the center, and decorating with dye or paint. Tip on seasoning freshly cut hardwood blocks for bowl turning. Prize-winning "gallery bowl" (12" diameter) is turned from wood. The rim of the bowl is separated from the base and then reattached with 24 unique spindles turned using offset centers. Pourri pot. How to turn this attractive wooden container with a lid for storing sweet-scented dried flowers (potpourri). Tip on using a glue gun to join bowl-turning blanks to a scrap piece of wood. Four-jaw chucking. Part 1. Using this versatile chuck for bowl-turning. Using superglue to aid in turning. Part 1. History of superglues, brand recommendations, and using superglue to aid in turning small wooden bowls. Star turn. Turned wooden bowl is shaped like a "flying saucer" spacecraft and features a removable dome-shaped top. Production turning tips for making small runs of "petit" bowls. Spreading one's wings. Turning a winged sphere from a whole green log. Once the outside has been shaped and the inside removed, what will remain is an "open" sphere (a bowl with wings). The slice is right. How to fabricate segmented turning blanks for bowls and round boxes. Includes a special jig for cutting a compound angle on the segments. Laminated bowls. Making a bowl-turning blank by laminating small pieces of wood. Turning the bowls on a router faceplate lathe. Woodworker's jigs. A bowl making jig. Make a contemporary wooden salad bowl from only one board foot of any kind of wood, (or combination of woods). The bowl measures nearly 12" in diameter at the top and is 5" deep. This band saw jig is used to cut concentric rings which are stacked and glued to form the bowl. The bowl is then trued up on a lathe or with a sanding machine. Turn a "basket weave" pattern bowl or flowerpot. Blank is made by stacking and laminating octagonal frames and then turning on a faceplate. Turned bowl. The turning block is made up of six octagonal layers, each a different diameter. The eight segments in each octagon are separated by veneer spacers which add a visual highlight to the finished bowl. Classic-style turned wooden bowl features a pedestal base. Overall dimensions: 8" diameter, 4" tall. Building the blank and turning a bricklaid bowl. Start turning. Part 8. Basics of bowl turning. Start turning. Part 9. Turning natural topped vessels (turnings with irregular edges formed by the bark and outside perimeter of a tree branch or log). Quick drying method for preturned wooden bowls involves boiling them in water. Start turning. Part 10. Using reverse chucking to achieve a clean finish on the outside of a turned bowl. Start turning. Part 11. Turning large bowls with natural edges or from spalted wood. Danish-inspired set of candlesticks and pigeon-shaped bowl. Each piece is worked from a single block of close-grained wood. Wooden wheelbarrow bowl. Early American whatnot bowl turned from maple with a hinged lid and a handle. Bowls from scrap wood and PEG (polyethylene glycol 1000). PEG is used to stabilize low grade wood to prevent splitting and checking after lathe turning. Turned gift set. Wooden salad bowl, wooden salad dressing server that holds three kinds of dressing in glass cups, and a wooden candlestick. Twin candlesticks and a flower bowl are wood lathe projects using maple and mahogany. Early American serving set consists of napkin holder, sugar bowl and scoop, toothpick holder, and butter dish. All are made from wood. How to finish salad bowls, chopping blocks and wooden items that will be used in contact with food. Wooden compote set on top of a pedestal and base is a fine project for the lathe craftsman. Three tier serving tray is made up of three turned bowls each separated by a turned column. Bowl diameters are 8", 7", and 6". Unit stands 17" high. How to create blanks for bowls from wood scraps glued to size. Bottom is cut as a 6, 8 or 10-sided blank and sides are glued on. Includes two graphs, one for calculating single side length in inches vs. the total diameter, and the other to compute wedge angle vs. number of sides. Bowls are finished by turning them on a lathe. How to carve an intertwined, three-legged stand for a bowl. An assortment of useful lathe projects, including lamps, bowls, plates and candlesticks. Simple hand-carved bowl in the shape of a smooth leaf. Eight piece wooden salad set consists of a large serving bowl, six individual salad bowls, and a scissor-fork serving tool. Requires lathe work. The lathe blanks are laminated up from small pieces of hardwood. Three-legged stand holds a large wooden salad bowl when you have a table full of guests. Colonial knitting bowl stand. A large wooden bowl is mounted on a pedestal supported on four turned legs. Designed to hold yarn and accessories, it also can be used to hold popcorn, fruit, nuts, etc. Turned maple salad bowl is 10" in diameter and 4" deep. Accompanying "salad rakes" are made from scrap wood and dowels. Candy dish (7" diameter) is turned from a solid piece of walnut. Step-by-step photos show the process. Making segmented bowls. Create advanced geometric-mosiac turnings by making stacked-ring turning blanks using segmented-circle rings. | |||||||||
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