My wife wants me to make a dizzy bowl for my nephew's wedding present. So I figured I better make one to work out the details.

 

For my test bowl I'm using white pine, purpleheart, redheart, yellowheart, osage orange, tiger wood, nocal, wenge, black walnut... I think that all. I noticed that using thick slabs the bowl ended up looking chunky... we'll see.

 

The base is two layers of 12 segments of nocal, it's a little soft but looks nice.

 

Hot gluing the next layer to the centering disk.

 

Gluing up the second ring.

 

 

Gluing up the strips. the cauls are hickory and the squiggly line is to remind me that is not a flat surface.

 

JT

 

Always wanted to try one of these! 

Squared up and ready to resaw them into strips... got a new wood slicer blade on the bandsaw. It's a rainy cold Wednesday so a nap is in order first.

 

JT

This will be the first I saw made since the William Young--Woodworking Friends days.  This was his specialty.  Wonder if he is still around?

Since I have no idea what a "dizzy bowl" is, I'll be following just to learn.

Answered my own question.  Found this YouTube channel.  Not much about woodworking but his last video was 4 weeks ago.

 

Got them resawn and sanded flat and the circles marked but it's raining so hard I just had to dash for the house and wait for the chickens to go in their coops so I could lock them up. I'll post some photos tomorrow.

 

JT

Can hardly wait to see the end results. Looks like they're gonna be doozies!

Edited February 9, 20233 yr by Headhunter

6 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Answered my own question.  Found this YouTube channel.  Not much about woodworking but his last video was 4 weeks ago.

 

He posts every now and then on the RM forum on FB.

A few of our club members have made those, crazy looking.

Got the slabs sanded and the circles drawn out. Each half is taped together temporarily with blue painters tape.

 

JT

Wow. I vaguely remember those colors. It was 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival ! Saw lots of those colors. But I digress. Looking to be a very cool bowl !

Paul

Not sure what a "dizzy bowl" is but the colors are looking great.  I'll be following this one for sure!

Got the slabs cut and sanded to size and marked the rings a few times...

 

Cut the ring halves out... not very well. I need to build a circle cutting jig for the band saw.

 

JT

Gluing up the ring halves. The small ones were easy...

 

I quickly figured out this method was not going to work because the ring ends didn't stay perfectly aligned...

 

So I changed my method and used a weight and some bits of wood to hold the ends down flat.

 

JT

Started gluing up the rings and turning them round and somewhat roughing it in.

 

Starting to develop the pattern.;.

 

JT

Looking good.  Way to improvise when things don't work out the way you think they should.  There is always a way.

When gluing the rings on I match the pattern on both sides and put the smallest dot of hot glue in 4 places to hold the next ring to the disk. I found that if I don't put match marks they don't always align well if the rings are 180° out.

 

JT

That is really cool!

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