This is my first attempt at a segmented bowl. It was fun. I enjoyed the process. The bottom is Padauk and I think the rest is some cherry I had laying around. I liked not having a mountain of shavings and it was fairly quick to turn.

 

Excellent. Just in time for Easter.  It'll look great on the kitchen table for Easter and then you can "turn some fruit for the rest of the year".  The glue joints look great.  Those are a lot less waste but take more time.  Give a little get a little kind of thing.  What did you use to cut the angles?

Looks great!!

27 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Excellent. Just in time for Easter.  It'll look great on the kitchen table for Easter and then you can "turn some fruit for the rest of the year".  The glue joints look great.  Those are a lot less waste but take more time.  Give a little get a little kind of thing.  What did you use to cut the angles?

I clamped a piece of wood to the fence on my table saw. I set the miter gage at 15 degrees. I but the wood up against the waste block so that when it gets to the blade it isn’t touching the fence any more. I will definitely be making more of these.

That's excellent, would never guess it's your first! Very nice.

Fantastic!  Do you have some sort of press for gluing the rings?

Fantastic job, Rusty.  Thanks for the degrees.  Maybe this year, I will try to make one.  

8 hours ago, lew said:

Fantastic!  Do you have some sort of press for gluing the rings?

I use hose clamps to glue the rings together. I bought some 12” sanding disc’s at Harbor Freight and made a sander to go on my lathe for sanding the rings flat before glueing them together.

7 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

Fantastic job, Rusty.  Thanks for the degrees.  Maybe this year, I will try to make one.  

You will get 12 pieces using 15 degrees. If you want less the degrees will change.

Standing applause! I like it, well done!

That is super Rusty!

+1 for all of the above!

Very nice bowl Rusty ! 
Paul

You definitely getting down bad on this stuff. What thickness did you end with?

7 hours ago, Gerald said:

You definitely getting down bad on this stuff. What thickness did you end with?

Thanks. It is 3/8” thick.

This should answer some questions. This is my process for making the rings. I cut the segments on my table saw with the miter gage. This time I set it at 10 degrees to get 18 pieces being as it will be a 13 inch bowl. I glue the ends and put them on a piece of painters tape. Then I flip it on it's side and roll it into a ring. Then I clamp it with a hose clamp.

 

 French's classic yellow glue? 

19 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 French's classic yellow glue? 

Yes. It makes a great glue bottle.

Pretty slick!!  I use the tape method to make small boxes out of long pieces of 1/4 plywood cut at 45⁰.  Works pretty good.  Never have tried anything else but will give this a try next time I make a blank.  

This is how I cut my segments.