Wavy Bowls

[Jeff Luedloff]

Wow very nice work. i really like the walnut bowl, awesome job

[Jeff Nicol]

Looks like fun to to and the result is wonderful! Nice complimentary woods and basic shapes.

Thanks for more ideas!

Jeff

[Mike Golka]

Great looking bowls John! I'll be trying to figure out "how'd he do that" all day now.

[Chris Stolicky]

Those are cool.

Good job.

[Rob Cunningham]

Great looking bowls. I'm also curious about the process.

[Mark Patoka]

I'll join the crowd also and say very nice work also. A tutorial would be great as I'm assuming there is some bandsaw work and gluing together the blank before the spinning begins.

[John Beaver]

Thanks Everyone,

I really appreciate all the responses.

I will definitely put together a tutorial at some point, but I have a few kinks I want to perfect before I share the whole process. I will say, that while the basic concept is not that complicated, it has taken me a few months, and the creation of a couple of complex jigs, to be able to achieve the result with acceptable precision.

As to Richard Madison's comment on the grain... I'm aware this was risky, and I've tried some tricks to see if I can make this work. I guess only time will tell. Waiting for some humidity here in So. Cal. to see how the wood moves.

[Roger Wilson]

These are part of a new technique I'm working on. I call it my "wavy" bowl series.

Very, very nice. Something original and good looking. A +1 on sharing the technique.

[Jim Underwood]

Wow. I really like these. I'm hoping you won't keep us in suspense too long about the technique....

[Richard Madison]

John, Thanks for your response. I have some laminated pieces from 20 years ago, back when I thought crossed grain laminations made the piece stronger. Although none has fallen apart (that I know about), one can now feel some of the joint areas where originally there was a deep, glassy smooth polyurethane finish, so there has definitely been movement.

Also have two new ribbon forms with some cross grain joints (think I posted them here), so they are not for sale for a couple of years at least. Maybe never.

[Thom Sturgill]

Way cool! I also want to know how...

[Paul Atkins]

Another vote for 'How'd he do it?' Nice.

[Mark Cothren]

Looks like some very nice work on some very nice bowls!

[Tom Giacomo]

They are all beautiful bowls, nice job.