Something different

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really a nice piece. Love the rose. She is going to love it.

[Dan Forman]

Don't know what to call it either, other than beautiful. Well done.

Dan

[Linda Persoon]

Christopher, the process I used for the “intasia” rose began with a drawing. I decided how I wanted the grain of the bloodwood oriented for each piece of the rose and drew arrows on each piece of the drawing in the direction of the grain before making several copies.
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I used my bandsaw to resaw the bloodwood to about 3/8" thick. After cutting the drawing into individual pieces, I used a glue stick to paste each individual piece of paper matching the intended grain orientation. Then cut out each piece using a scroll saw. I shaped the top of each piece by sanding. Then glued the center pieces to a 3/16” disk.
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First I tried using double stick tape to attach them to the disk, but in the end I went with cutting a disk of bloodwood and gluing the smaller, inner pieces to it.
After shaping the previously rough turned bowl, I turned a recess the same size and depth as the bloodwood disk.
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After that I just shaped the bottom of the outer petals to match the curve of the bowl and glued them in place.
My intention was to carve veins in each petal with a small v-tool, but forgot. So actually I didn’t carve anything. The nice thing about this approach – if you are not happy with part of it, you can just make another piece. It’s in the mail now. Should be there by her birthday on Friday.

[Linda Persoon]

Looks like I still don't have the formatting right for inserting pictures. Hope you can decipher.

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Christopher, the process I used for the “intasia” rose began with a drawing. I decided how I wanted the grain of the bloodwood oriented for each piece of the rose and drew arrows on each piece of the drawing in the direction of the grain before making several copies.
downsized_0127111350.jpg (17.6 KB)
I used my bandsaw to resaw the bloodwood to about 3/8" thick. After cutting the drawing into individual pieces, I used a glue stick to paste each individual piece of paper matching the intended grain orientation. Then cut out each piece using a scroll saw. I shaped the top of each piece by sanding. Then glued the center pieces to a 3/16” disk.
downsized_0130112013.jpg (21.6 KB)

First I tried using double stick tape to attach them to the disk, but in the end I went with cutting a disk of bloodwood and gluing the smaller, inner pieces to it.
After shaping the previously rough turned bowl, I turned a recess the same size and depth as the bloodwood disk.
downsized_0130111533.jpg (35.1 KB)


After that I just shaped the bottom of the outer petals to match the curve of the bowl and glued them in place.
My intention was to carve veins in each petal with a small v-tool, but forgot. So actually I didn’t carve anything. The nice thing about this approach – if you are not happy with part of it, you can just make another piece. It’s in the mail now. Should be there by her birthday on Friday.

Thanks Linda, This is a great idea I haven't heard before. I'll save this process. I appreciate your time in responding.

[Baxter Smith]

That will be a special keepsake for her! Well done!