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Wood central inspired bowl embellishment *LINK*

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Wood central inspired bowl embellishment *LINK*

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Wood central inspired bowl embellishment *LINK*

Dave Paine

I saw a thread by Ron Bauer at the end of April making a bowl with darts in the rim. He was inspired by John Lucas who made darts in mirrors.

Thanks to both John and Ron for the inspiration and details on how to do this embellishment.

Rons thread is linked below.

I loved the look of Rons bowl.

I was pondering options to embellish the rim of a bowl I am turning for a friend from a piece of an elm tree he had taken down early in January this year.

I wanted to show the friend the options in actual bowls. This meant trying out the technique for myself. I had a cherry bowl rough turned with walls thick enough for this embellishment.

The completed bowl. I started thinking I would have sharp edges like Rons bowl. I then changed to rounding the rim. All my friends prefer the rounded rim. I think I liked the sharp edge better.



The rim before I rounded off.


I decided to make the dart insert as flatwork. Easier for me. I ripped pieces of bubinga to glue around a piece of hard maple.

I then set the table saw to 45 deg to cut out the middle. I now have material for two bowls.


I watched Johns video on routing on the lathe. A lot of good information, including to use a flat bottomed router bit.

I am glad I decided to make the inserts off the lathe.

I made a 45 deg jig to support the router on an X-Y table mounted on the lathe beds. The X-Y table made it easy to make several passes.

On the second pass I noticed the corner of the router bit was not aligned to the corner of the previous pass. Drat. My chuck had started to vibrate loose.


I normally do not insert a locking screw in the chuck since I do not operate the lathe in reverse. For this application I had to go out and buy a metric set screw. I was able to clear up the cut outs for the darts in later passes.

The router bit was not quite as long as I wanted, so a little manual sanding to clean up the ends.


Clamping on the darts a few at a time.


Thanks for looking. I am interested in whether you prefer the rounded rim or sharp edge rim.


http://www.woodcentral.com/woodworking/forum/turning.pl/page/43/md/read/id/487036/sbj/thank-you-john-lucas/

Re: Wood central inspired bowl embellishment *LINK*

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Re: Wood central inspired bowl embellishment

john lucas

Good job. The way I do those can be tricky. I route the slot and insert one wood. Then turn that one flush and route another slot to a shallower depth and insert the contrasting wood. This has some advantages and some disadvantages. The advantage is you can mount the insert off center or route it to a depth very close to the first one to get very thin contrasting pieces. The downside is it's very easy to get them off center.

Re: Wood central inspired bowl embellishment *LINK*

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Brad Vietje

Re: Wood central inspired bowl embellishment

Brad Vietje

Beautiful, Dave! I like the rounded look much better; I think it gives away less of the technique, and creates more of a "how'd he do that?" feeling in the observer.

My 2 cents...

Brad Vietje

Newbury, VT

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Re: Wood central inspired bowl embellishment

John K Jordan

Very nice!

I like both the rounded and sharp edges. The rounded rim is nice but the sharp rim shows the shape of the inlay from the side.

Hey, what I've done a few times on relatively thick walls was to strongly radius the inner edge and keep the outer sharp, with perhaps a touch of 400 or 600 grit to soften the outer edge. To me, this nicely combined both soft and crisp.

JKJ