Wavy Plywood Bowl

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

Beautiful, John,
Who would imagine plywood could look so artsy. I hope you post your technique for making the wave. I am assuming you glued up bending ply with a form and press. Anyway, the shape and the look are outstanding. I've always admired your posts and check your web sit for new creations. Good luck in the contest.
faust

[John Beaver]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. Posting here is sure good for ones ego.
John

[Cathy Schaewe]

That is really cool -

[Todd Bin]

I am also curious how he got the waves in the bowl but I have a theory on how to do this. I am curious if you guys think this would work.
Steps.
1. Stack and Laminate several pieces of plywood together into a cube
2. Saw or plane off one of the edges (or maybe corners) to make a flat spot to mount the face plate
3. Turn the bowl like normal

I think this would make the curves but still having a little difficulty visualizing it.

~Todd

[Dan Hintz]

Rank amateur...
















At least that's what I'd have to call myself after seeing such a simple substrate turned into such a beautiful piece of art

[Peter Elliott]

well, ground hog day has gone, but will Mr. Beaver teach us or go back in the dark for another 6 weeks?

If your going to show, you got to tell...

[Brian Vaughn]

From an engineering perspective, it looks like, in order to make the wave, that the plywood layers were simply bent laminated. So if each plywood layer were a disc, support the disc at two point 180 degrees from each other and push down in the middle using a bar oriented 90 degrees from the supports. So if you support the disc at the north and south edges, then push down with a bar going from east to west. Steam it, bend it, dry it, glue it, turn it, voila! Now you just need a laminated stack of those, about 10 inches thick, and you turn a bowl out of it...Now if it were just that easy in real life....