A few small bowls
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mark james
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Those are very attractive! Thanks for sharing. 
Jim15
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Great work.
tomtedesco
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Great choice of woods, looks good.
egnald
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I really like the design. - Dave
SteveJ
Member
Well done. Very attractive bowls (or are they boxes?)
NGLJ
Member
I guess you could call them boxes or bowls with lids. I just think of boxes having corners
. Forgot to mention the "green" wood. Don't know how it got that color. It was given to me by a friend, and he does not know either.
Woodchipper
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Nice with the contrasting woods. Old time hat boxes were round; wife has her grandmother's.
NGLJ
Member
That's true now that you remind me. It's a piece of round wood with a round hole in it and a lid to keep the dust out
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NGLJ
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The segments are cut on the bandsaw. In this case with the table set at 30 deg from horizontal giving 12 segments to the ring. If you make the width of the wood the height X tan(30) you can get 2 segments from each cut. This creates 2 wedges. To turn the wedges into segments set the table at 15 deg and trim the base of each wedge with the hypotenuse of the wedge flat on the table . Now you have a "slice of pie". Apart from decoration, putting in spacers creates a small hole in the center of the "pie". It also makes allowance for slight cutting errors. Now you have a "pie" with 12 flat sides and a hole in the middle. Put it on the lathe (the hole helps to align on the lathe), turn it round and hollow out the inside. Although hollowing out is a lot more work, and more wasteful, than cutting thinner segments, I found that glue up accuracy was much better this way. I did try using thinner segments and sometimes ended up with some spacers that weren't quite vertical. My wife insisted that she could not tell but you know how picky we woodworkers are
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Kalai
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Nice bowls, thanks for sharing.
Kalai
Kalai
NGLJ
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I wish
. I think that it has been stained "green" somehow. It is a hardwood 2" thick. So, I don't how that would be done to get an even color throughout. Perhaps it sat in "something" for a long time. It is only about 1' that is that color - should have mentioned that, sorry . The rest (2') is a medium brown.The segments are cut on the bandsaw. In this case with the table set at 30 deg from horizontal giving 12 segments to the ring. If you make the width of the wood the height X tan(30) you can get 2 segments from each cut. This creates 2 wedges. To turn the wedges into segments set the table at 15 deg and trim the base of each wedge with the hypotenuse of the wedge flat on the table . Now you have a "slice of pie". Apart from decoration, putting in spacers creates a small hole in the center of the "pie". It also makes allowance for slight cutting errors. Now you have a "pie" with 12 flat sides and a hole in the middle. Put it on the lathe (the hole helps to align on the lathe), turn it round and hollow out the inside. Although hollowing out is a lot more work, and more wasteful, than cutting thinner segments, I found that glue up accuracy was much better this way. I did try using thinner segments and sometimes ended up with some spacers that weren't quite vertical. My wife insisted that she could not tell but you know how picky we woodworkers are
Thanks for the details! I will have to give this a try. I've been wanting to get into segmenting for years.
Regarding waste...I guess that's just a fact of life when it comes to being a woodworker.
To bring something beautiful to life, you gotta waste a little wood! 
PreacherJon
Member
You got to love them... great work