How about these?

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Yes. There are a lot of varieties of these. I personally have no done one, but someday would like to try it.  The ones I have seen were open bowls now seeing a vase shape doesn't really surprise me.

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

I haven't done any either. There is a lady named Carole Rothman I believe who has an excellent book out on making these. Also one of my FB friends Charles Dearing has been doing some of these, I'll see if I can get him over here. 

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Here are a couple of Carole's videos

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

I found bowling making very addictive. There for awhile, I did nothing but bowls. They are fun and truly challenging. Here is one I consider my signature design.  This one is 13 inches in diameter and made from ash.

SQ

Great work Susie. Any thoughts or advice for folks wanting to take this task on?

 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Beautiful Susie. looks like you'll be our resident scroll saw bowl expert

 

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Greg
http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/

Thanks everyone for the kind words.  Geez, seems I should have proofed that post before I posted it.  As everyone probably figured out it should have read: "bowl making"  

 

As Greg said, for anyone interested in making bowls -  Carole Rothman's book called " Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw" is a must have.  Carole goes into great detail on how to make bowls and even includes a cutting angle chart which is essential for creating rings that align perfectly.  She also has a pattern and instructions for making a bowl press.  The bowl press makes gluing up the rings much easier and gap free.  I have made several presses in different sizes and even one that accommodates different sized bowls. 

But I'm warning you - they are very addictive.  I spent a couple of years making nothing but bowls.  lol  I took her general techniques, made my own patterns and super -sized them.  The bowls in the book are small, but they are a great way to learn the basic concepts of bowl construction.

 

I'm no expert on bowls, but would be happy to try and answer any questions.

 

SQ

 

 

 

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It it can't be fixed with glue and sawdust - it's not worth fixing.

Yes, Malcolm Tibbetts, (www.tahoeturner.com) who is pretty well-known in the wood turning community, has popularized the same sort of thing that Carole is doing, but, because Malcolm uses a bandsaw rather than a scroll saw to cut the rings, he has to cut the source board in half before cutting the rings. (Rather difficult to thread that one-piece band saw blade through a starting hole.) So his technique has the added step of squaring the ends of the half rings and gluing the ring (back) together. Additionally, Malcolm uses a lathe and assorted cutting tools to shape the bowl where Carole using various power and hand sanding machines and techniques.

 

Malcolm demonstrates making a small bowl from just three pen blanks – typically small sticks ¾ “ or 11/16†square and about 5 inches long. He offers a free set of instructions on his website – “Pen Blank Segmented Bowl†- http://www.tahoeturner.com/instructions/pdf/penblankbowl.pdf

(Warning, this .pdf file is 7.33M, so if you’re on a slow internet connection, you may want to consider starting your download of this file last thing in the evening and let it run into the night.)

 

Malcolm credits Dale Nish for introducing him to the concept in a 1976 book “Creative Woodturning†Here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Woodturning-Dale-L-Nish/dp/0842504699

 

If you’re interested in seeing other’s approach to this technique, check out Mike Shuler (http://mikeshuler.com/) and Michael Mode (http://www.michaelmode.com/gallery.html)

 

BTW, it looks like Carole Rothman sells a book on scroll saw bowls and has a new book on using a similar technique for boxes to be released early in 2012. Here are the Amazon links for those books: http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Bowls-Scroll-Easy---Make/dp/1565234332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313195020&sr=8-1 and http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Wooden-Boxes-Scroll-Easy-/dp/156523541X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313195020&sr=8-2

 

Thanks for bringing Carole’s stunning work to the attention of the community.

 

Mike Hollander

Mike Hollander said:

Yes, Malcolm Tibbetts, (

www.tahoeturner.com

) who is pretty well-known in the wood turning community, has popularized the same sort of thing that Carole is doing, but, because Malcolm uses a bandsaw rather than a scroll saw to cut the rings, he has to cut the source board in half before cutting the rings. (Rather difficult to thread that one-piece band saw blade through a starting hole.) So his technique has the added step of squaring the ends of the half rings and gluing the ring (back) together. Additionally, Malcolm uses a lathe and assorted cutting tools to shape the bowl where Carole using various power and hand sanding machines and techniques.

 

Malcolm demonstrates making a small bowl from just three pen blanks – typically small sticks ¾ “ or 11/16†square and about 5 inches long. He offers a free set of instructions on his website – “Pen Blank Segmented Bowl†-

http://www.tahoeturner.com/instructions/pdf/penblankbowl.pdf

(Warning, this .pdf file is 7.33M, so if you’re on a slow internet connection, you may want to consider starting your download of this file last thing in the evening and let it run into the night.)

 

Malcolm credits Dale Nish for introducing him to the concept in a 1976 book “Creative Woodturning†Here’s the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Woodturning-Dale-L-Nish/dp/0842504699

 

If you’re interested in seeing other’s approach to this technique, check out Mike Shuler (

http://mikeshuler.com/

) and Michael Mode (

http://www.michaelmode.com/gallery.html

)

 

BTW, it looks like Carole Rothman sells a book on scroll saw bowls and has a new book on using a similar technique for boxes to be released early in 2012. Here are the Amazon links for those books:

http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Bowls-Scroll-Easy---Make/dp/1565234332...

and

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Wooden-Boxes-Scroll-Easy-/dp/1565235...

 

Thanks for bringing Carole’s stunning work to the attention of the community.

 

Mike Hollander

Wow Mike thanx for all the great info and links


Mike Hollander said:

Yes, Malcolm Tibbetts, (www.tahoeturner.com) who is pretty well-known in the wood turning community, has popularized the same sort of thing that Carole is doing, but, because Malcolm uses a bandsaw rather than a scroll saw to cut the rings, he has to cut the source board in half before cutting the rings. (Rather difficult to thread that one-piece band saw blade through a starting hole.) So his technique has the added step of squaring the ends of the half rings and gluing the ring (back) together. Additionally, Malcolm uses a lathe and assorted cutting tools to shape the bowl where Carole using various power and hand sanding machines and techniques.

 

Malcolm demonstrates making a small bowl from just three pen blanks – typically small sticks ¾ “ or 11/16†square and about 5 inches long. He offers a free set of instructions on his website – “Pen Blank Segmented Bowl†- http://www.tahoeturner.com/instructions/pdf/penblankbowl.pdf

(Warning, this .pdf file is 7.33M, so if you’re on a slow internet connection, you may want to consider starting your download of this file last thing in the evening and let it run into the night.)

 

Malcolm credits Dale Nish for introducing him to the concept in a 1976 book “Creative Woodturning†Here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Woodturning-Dale-L-Nish/dp/0842504699

 

If you’re interested in seeing other’s approach to this technique, check out Mike Shuler (http://mikeshuler.com/) and Michael Mode (http://www.michaelmode.com/gallery.html)

 

BTW, it looks like Carole Rothman sells a book on scroll saw bowls and has a new book on using a similar technique for boxes to be released early in 2012. Here are the Amazon links for those books: http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Bowls-Scroll-Easy---Make/dp/1565234332... and http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Wooden-Boxes-Scroll-Easy-/dp/1565235...

 

Thanks for bringing Carole’s stunning work to the attention of the community.

 

Mike Hollander

Scrollsaw bowls have been around for at least 25 years. Patrick Speilman did an article on these in a couple of his books. This technique was re-introduced around 3 years ago with more detail and styles.

I do like these, but in my opinion, they favor the ringmaster tool too much. I may try one using the polychromatic style that many turners use.

Awesome bowls Susie! Great links Mike! I saw these bowls at our local woodworking arts and crafts fair and I was blown away at how beautiful they were, and as I talked to the maker of the ones pictured above, I loved the idea that his were made entirely from shop cutoffs, being the reclaimed wood junkie I am, I was happy to see scraps being used once again in an efficient manner instead of heading for the mulch pile.

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

John,

Thanks for the nice comment.  I agree reclaimed lumber is the way to go, if possible.  Nearly all of my wood comes from a fella that removes tress due to disease, storms, or whatever.  I get this lumber usually 1 1/2 inches thick in 6 to 8 ft lengths.  He has a nice variety of woods. The bowl ash bowl pictured was from an ash tree that had blown down.

 

SQ

John Morris said:

Awesome bowls Susie! Great links Mike! I saw these bowls at our local woodworking arts and crafts fair and I was blown away at how beautiful they were, and as I talked to the maker of the ones pictured above, I loved the idea that his were made entirely from shop cutoffs, being the reclaimed wood junkie I am, I was happy to see scraps being used once again in an efficient manner instead of heading for the mulch pile.

 

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker