I'm not sure how to ask this question, because I'm not even sure of what the right words would be.
I want to make a segmented bowl with a square ceramic tile as a feature in the middle of the bottom. At my niece's wedding 4" x 4" Mexican Talavera (aka majolica) square ceramic tiles (~3/8" thick) were a feature of the wedding decorations. The tiles have brightly colored glazed ceramic on top, with terracotta showing on the bottom.I am trying to think of a turned bowl project could make that has the tile in the bottom. The closest turning term I can come up with is to use this square tile as a medallion-like feature in the bottom.
I'm thinking of something like make a tight fitting wood "frame" around the tile. The frame would be the same thickness as the tile and would eventually form a disk with a square hole cut through it. Underneath this frame would be a "base" of another piece of wood that the tile would rest on. Permanently glue the frame to the base, making a wood sandwich with a hollow place for the tile. Use this sandwich as the base of a turned bowl project.
Does this this description make sense? What is such a feature bottom called in the woodturning world? Any pictures, or shop notes anyone know about of such a beastie???
I want to make a segmented bowl with a square ceramic tile as a feature in the middle of the bottom. At my niece's wedding 4" x 4" Mexican Talavera (aka majolica) square ceramic tiles (~3/8" thick) were a feature of the wedding decorations. The tiles have brightly colored glazed ceramic on top, with terracotta showing on the bottom.I am trying to think of a turned bowl project could make that has the tile in the bottom. The closest turning term I can come up with is to use this square tile as a medallion-like feature in the bottom.
I'm thinking of something like make a tight fitting wood "frame" around the tile. The frame would be the same thickness as the tile and would eventually form a disk with a square hole cut through it. Underneath this frame would be a "base" of another piece of wood that the tile would rest on. Permanently glue the frame to the base, making a wood sandwich with a hollow place for the tile. Use this sandwich as the base of a turned bowl project.
Does this this description make sense? What is such a feature bottom called in the woodturning world? Any pictures, or shop notes anyone know about of such a beastie???