After the recent bowl swap mentioned in another thread, I commented to the participants that some ideas I had may get me sent to a room with rubber wallpaper. I'll let you folks weigh in on that with these.

 

The first pic is of the cantilever design in two versions. One straight cantilever (2nd pic) and the Springbowl (3rd pic) where the connections are offset opposite to each other. Bowls are NOT meant to be springy! These are hickory and mesquite.

 

The 4th pic is just an offset that leaves open spaces between rings. The concept works but there are some serious details I need to work out yet. Black walnut for this one.

 

The last pic is a follow-up to the chaos bowls I posted previously. Getting closer to what I want but not quite there yet. Need to smack the idiot who glued this together upside the head for not paying attention to what he was doing.  Black walnut and Spectraply here.

That's quite amazing.  Looks tedious and exacting.  You have patience.

 i like the black walnut with the offset rings, unique pattern. Nice work.

Amazing!!

I think that is the brightest spectraply I have seen. Was it cutoffs or cut just for this job? I like where you are going and inspiring me to get my RM back together

16 hours ago, HandyDan said:

...  You have patience.

NOT!  That's why I do these with the RM. Always in too much of a hurry to get it done right. 

Duck and Lew - Thanks, guys!  The walnut bowls will have some significant detail changes whenever I do more. These barely held together for the pics and will probably end up in the scrap bin.

 

These are what you get when "Road less traveled" combines with "What would happen if I...".

 

Gerald -  This was my next step in the chaos line. Wanted to use Spectraply to get the really little bits of color but still didn't get to quite as small as I wanted. Will probably use up what pieces I have left and call that idea quits. They raised their prices 50% over the past few months which puts it out of my foreseeable future.