Bi-species bowl

Four views of the same bowl. About 6" square. Outside is walnut and inside is white ash.

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Bob Hamilton

Registered: October 2005
Location: Forest, Ontario, Canada
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Date: Tue November 1, 2005
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Keywords: bispecies bowl

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Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

This is a piece that I can see lots of possiblities for. Care to share the a., b., c., 1., 2., 3.'s? I for one would love to know how to do this one. 8)

#1 Tue November 1, 2005 4:26am

Chris Wright

Very cool Bob, is it a lamination, and if not how did you get the maple so deep into the walnut? Or is it an optical illusion?

#2 Tue November 1, 2005 6:06am

Bob Hamilton

Hi, Rev:
Thanks. It was inspired by a piece I saw at a wood show several years ago. A salad bowl form where the outside was walnut and the inside was maple. When I finally decided to give it a try I turned the outside of the walnut bowl and sanded and finished it. Then I reversed it and turned out the inside but did not sand or finish the inside. Then I turned an ash bowl outside to roughly the same form. Once I thought it was relatively close I sprinkled chalk line chalk inside the walnut bowl and test fitted. Then it was just a matter of turning off the chalk marks on the outside of the ash bowl and test fitting again. Once I had done this several times I had a pretty good fit. I epoxied the two together and when the glue was dry I turned, sanded and finished the inside of the ash bowl by mounting on the recess of the walnut bowl. It really went quite smoothly. This one is my "proof of concept" prototype, but I haven't tried it again, yet. Smile

#3 Tue November 1, 2005 9:50am

Philip Peak

Very interesting process, it is sort of like what the Dentist does when fittign a crown or checking your bite with the other teeth.

#4 Tue November 1, 2005 10:54am

Gil

A very interesting, and good-looking bowl. Thanks for sharing that information.

#5 Tue November 1, 2005 12:28pm