| Project by Darell | posted 07-23-2011 06:24 PM | 6552 views | 22 times favorited | 24 comments |  |
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I decided to try and use up some scrap plywood I had laying around and came up with this bowl. I glued up a block 8 3/4” square on all sides or as close as I could get to it. Then cut the blank diagionaly across the blank to the grain ran at an angle. I got the idea of doing that from a turning magazine awhile back. The bowl is 8 1/2” across the top, 3” across the bottom and 4” tall. Quite a bit of the final shape came from power sanding with 60 grit disks to sand out the chip-outs. The overall shape was kind of fixed due to the shape of the blanks after I cut them and rounded them off with the bandsaw. You still have a bottom that comes to a point that you have to deal with. I then sanded to 320 grit. Finished with 6 coats of thinned laquer and buffed with all three steps of the Beal Buffing System. Overall, I think it turned out well. I’ll probably experiment further with plywood as time allows in the future. Maybe try coloring with some dye.
Forgot to mention that I mounted the blank on a faceplate after trueing up the surface on my jointer. Then turned a spigot on the bottom to mount it on a chuck to turn the inside. You reallly have to be careful when parting it off as the plywood gives way very easily.
-- Darell, Norman, Ok.
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lew
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#1 posted 07-23-2011 06:25 PM
Wow! Plywood- who knew?!?
Beautiful!
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CharlieM1958
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#2 posted 07-23-2011 06:42 PM
That’s amazing. Looks like I’ve got a new project for the list. :-)
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Moby
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#3 posted 07-23-2011 06:53 PM
Awesome! I’m definitely gonna try that out sometime in the future.
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#4 posted 07-23-2011 06:53 PM
Not in a million years would I have guessed plywood. It really looks nice.
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Grandpa
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#5 posted 07-23-2011 07:02 PM
The grain makes all the difference doesn’t it! It looks great!
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#6 posted 07-23-2011 07:35 PM
Looks Awesome..Got to try that myself!
rance
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#7 posted 07-23-2011 07:36 PM
Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis, Lis.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN!!!!!!!!!
THIS is what you should do with all that plywood. :) Darell, this is fantastic. Wonderful job on this piece. On your next one, pictures during the process would be impressive. Very creative.
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#8 posted 07-23-2011 07:50 PM
Nice job :)
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marter1229
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#9 posted 07-23-2011 08:02 PM
What everyone else says.
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peteg
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#10 posted 07-23-2011 11:40 PM
Think you will have a market for this style Darell, looks real different, what a great idea, very well done indeed :)
-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got
Transition
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#11 posted 07-24-2011 07:22 AM
This is so wrong! But it looks absolutely beautiful! Nice job!
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michelletwo
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#12 posted 07-24-2011 12:18 PM
i HAVE SEEN MANY PLYWOOD BOWLS, VASES ETC, BUT NEVER IN A CONFIGURATION LIKE THIS. VERY CLEVER APPROACH.
murch
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#13 posted 07-24-2011 02:08 PM
WOW Darell. What a job you did. Agree with Sawtooth and Rance.
I never, ever would have said plywood and some photo’s of the process pls.
Maybe for the next one. This one is headed straight for my favourites.
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TopamaxSurvivor
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#14 posted 07-24-2011 08:33 PM
Awesome results!!
-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
lou
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#15 posted 07-24-2011 10:10 PM
Something new every day here.Beautifull Darell.Thanks.
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