Segmented glueup I found at garage sale

[Bill Jobe]

Vases could look really nice too, especially if they were tall and slender. Not that I'd do that myself... don't have the toolset or skills to hollow something like that.

I hear thee.
But I like your idea of cutting diagonal cutting boards. I could try making one and see how I like it before using up a whole glueup. That would also leave me with a diagonal piece that's round on the end that I could turn into a vase or some such thing.

Thanks for your ideas and suggestions everyone.

So much wood.....so little time. Got a call from a tree service saying he had a piece of olive he was saving for me.

[Bill Bulloch]

You don't say what the diameter of the laminations are, but another thought would be to split them down the middle like you do a log. That way you would not be hollowing end grain and it would give you a different pattern. You could also re-saw and re-glue to achieve different patterns. I was going to refer you to Frank Penta's website so you could see some of his laminations, but the website he gave us at the AAW Symposium (http://woodspriteturning.com/sties/penta/) doesn't work. Maybe you could just google his name (Frank Penta Woodturner) and see some of his work.