Hi John,

I'd like to see and hear more about your routed bowls. Techniques, tooling, glue ups...etc.

I've made a few of one pattern using maple and walnut stacked laminations. looking at your peels and boards,I'll bet you have other ways to glue up for the bowls. Sure does make a mess though, doesn't it? Do you have any sort of system for collecting the dust/shavings as you work? I just wait until I'm finished and vacuum it up.

John Hechel said:

This was my weekend... 28 pizza peels, 12 cutting boards, plus a couple of routed bowls.

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Round Barn WoodCrafts, Plymouth WI
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Gene,

I have a few bowls in process right now that I'll snap some pictures of. How I glue them depends upon what shape and style they are. for most I just stack laminate drill out the bulk of the waste affix my pattern and rout away. on others I'll laminate aroud the edges to waste less wood. I doubt this really saves me anything but at least I feel better about it

I curently do not have a dust collector so I just get out the shop vac for what doesn't stick inside my shirt. My plan is to build a  sided box connected to a dust collector to contain the chips, This would look similar to a dust chute for a miter saw. I'm hoping a set-up like this will contain most of the carnage.

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Round Barn WoodCrafts, Plymouth WI
roundbarnwoodcrafts@hotmail.com

Thanks, John. I'm looking forward to seeing your bowls. 

Here's a few of my candy dishes. It;s hard to see, but there is a strip of walnut between two layers of oak. Pretty mundane, but they do hold candy.

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

here are a few of mine Gene,

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Round Barn WoodCrafts, Plymouth WI
roundbarnwoodcrafts@hotmail.com