Here is another scrap wood project for you to consider: laminated fruit bowls. This is another cool way to use up some of that scrap lumber mounting up in your works shop. Here's the photos and some discussion:
This whole thing began with a lot of scrap lumber I had in the shop-white oak, thin mahogany and black walnut blanks, and hickory. I cut them 2 1/4" wide by 13" long and glued up the block that you see here yesterday:
Here is the block with the clamps off:
After this I cut out a turning blank on the bandsaw and mounted it on the lathe and began by truing up the face and the side of the blank. This is always my favorite part-you can see all the dried glue peel away and rough wood becomes smooth and the different colors of wood begin to show:
Then I began to round up the side. The wood is easy to turn at this point:
Here is the blank several minutes later. You can really see the various kinds of wood that the blank is composed of here:
Here is the underside of the bowl. I've created a narrow foot and I'm turning a dovetail into the recess in the middle of the foot. The chuck jaws will fit into this shortly:
And then I flipped it over and trued up the top of the blank. You can really see the colors here:
And here is the blank at present. This is the top of the bowl:
And here is the underside:
I'm going to leave the blank for now and tomorrow I'll hollow it out:
I'll see you all tomorrow.
VW
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