Getting ready to make my first bowl from a board. Here is my glue up for it. Going for a dizzy bowl. Wish me luck. Almost forgot the glue up is 12” square and 3/4” thick.

That is gonna be awesome!!

Dizzy bowls are amazing. Good luck with it.

Looking forward to this.

Disaster, I should have started with some junk wood. I have it figured out now.

Can you save what you have and practice on a smaller design 🤔

William Young had a website, Wood Working Friends, and made those dizzy bowls daily. He and some of the other members really had that down pat. I wish he didn't shut it down. There was a lot of knowledge to be found there. William Young also had a lot of videos on dizzy bowls and removed them from YouTube. I don't know why.

2 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

Can you save what you have and practice on a smaller design 🤔

No not enough left to work with. I am playing with some scrap 3/4” pine I had laying around. I have the parting off and sizing down. Trying a couple of more things then I will go for it again.

2 hours ago, HandyDan said:

William Young had a website, Wood Working Friends, and made those dizzy bowls daily. He and some of the other members really had that down pat. I wish he didn't shut it down. There was a lot of knowledge to be found there. William Young also had a lot of videos on dizzy bowls and removed them from YouTube. I don't know why.

Yes that’s a shame. Not a lot on the internet about doing them.

Rusty, that really sucks! I'm sure you've seen all of these, but just in case. Also Ron Brown has some stuff on his website.

https://ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php?threads/bowl-from-a-board.82973/

https://tedswoodshop.com/dizzy-bowl/

https://liwoodturners.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/liwa-newsletter-dec-2019r.pdf

https://www.gbwg.ca/references/DizzyBowlNotes.pdf

https://thepatriotwoodworker.com/forums/topic/39064-dizzy-bowl-ii-aka-the-wedding-bowl/

William had some good stuff, but all on a RingMaster machine. He also got one of those bandsaw attachments to slice a glueup two more times. I have a lot of notes and printouts from the site but not sure it would help.

Thanks Lew. I will go through all of those links tonight when I have time.

I got my first bowl done. Nothing fancy. Made from poplar, 3/4” lumber. I cut the rings and then cut them in half so they would only be 3/8” tall. Glued it up yesterday and turned it today. Not a great glue up because I was experimenting with a couple of different things. Ready to go to a glue up now. I was surprised how nice it turned for being as thin as it was. It was 1/2” turned down to 1/4” thick, 8.5” in diameter at the top. No vibration while turning, 1000 rpm and 1/2” bowl gouge.

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Really made that poplar look nice!!

Looks good Rusty. I have done a couple and they are challenging. The RingMaster and accessories deal with those challenges nicely not that I have ever had one but have seen plenty made using it,

Here are a few pictures. My glue up is 3/4” thick. All of the cuts are 45 degrees. Going to keep twisting rings to see what I like. Debating on if I want to cut the rings down from 3/4” to 3/8”. The glue up was 12” by 12” so the top of the bowl should be around 11”.

Lookin' really neat, Rusty!!

absolutely love the colors and grains. what are the woods?

50 minutes ago, Rusty S said:

absolutely love the colors and grains. what are the woods?

Leopard wood, Purple Heart, canary wood. Bocote and Jataba.

Food for thought, if I ever get somewhere that sells exotics, maybe