I guess you could call them boxes or bowls with lids. I just think of boxes having cornersWell done. Very attractive bowls (or are they boxes?)
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 outNice with the contrasting woods. Old time hat boxes were round; wife has her grandmother's.
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 areVery nice! Love the vertical segmenting, fairly unique.
I wishThose look fantastic.
Might the green wood be Lignum Vitae? It's the wood I think of when I see green wood.
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.