Scrap wood segmented bowl

Here's a scrap wood segmented bowl I turned today. It measures 3 inches high and 6.75 inches in diameter. The woods, top to bottom are: mahogany fine plywood, next a layer of alternating walnut and pine segments, then a layer of pine, then a layer of mahogany plywood, another layer of pine and the base is a different kind of mahogany. It was wet sanded up to 320 grit, given a coat of linseed oil, the a high speed wax coat to finish. This was essentially a practice bowl, making segments, and practice my turning technique. I'll gift this to one of my friends.

Top view: inside of bowl

Bottom view

A lid for the bowl makes it a box

. . . and so I made a lid for the spalted Maple bowl. And so that makes it a box. I found another piece of that same spalted Maple just big enough to make this lid. Also, from a small piece of spalted Apple wood I turned a knob for the lid. I'm posting more photos below.

Top view.

Spalted Maple Bowl

This is a small spalted Maple wood bowl which measures 4 inches in diameter and 3 inches high. The spalting on this is pretty wild. Once this was oiled, the depth in the coloration is amazing. This was wet sanded with mineral oil, then oiled with boiled linseed oil, then lightly hand rubbed waxed. The finish on this looks and feels like satin. Though this was heavily spalted, I managed to achieve very little tear-out of the wood fibers by turning at a very high speed and using a very light touch at the final stages before sanding. This one came out very well indeed . . . so I'm posting several photos.

Top view.

Small Apple Wood Bowl

This is a small bowl made from spalted Apple wood. It measures 4 inches in diameter and 1.25 inches high. Wet sanded with mineral oil. Oiled with boiled linseed oil, polished on the lathe with wood shavings, then hand rubbed wax.

Top view.

Small Spalted Maple Bowl

This is a small spalted maple wood bowl I made this morning on my lathe. It measures 3.5 inches in diameter and 1.25 inches high. It was wet-sanded with mineral oil and sandpaper grits up to 320 grit. It was finished with boiled linseed oil and polished with wood shavings on the lathe.

Small wooden dish

I glued together the scraps of Mahogany left over from another project (The Chinese Vase Bell Replacement). Just enough wood to turn this little dish. I wet sanded this one using mineral oil, and sandpaper grits up to 320 grit. I polished it with wood shavings. The dish measures 4 inches in diameter and one inch in height.

Wood-turned Top for Damaged Chinese Vase

I was given this vase by the owner of a restoration studio at which I worked. It depicts the animals of the Chinese "Zodiac". The original "bell", at the mouth of this vase came in damaged. Instead of repairing the bell, the customer decided to have us cut it off. Then we never heard from the customer again. It was considered abandoned. I've had this on a shelf in my house for some time now, having intended to do something, I don't know what, to the mouth of this jar. Now that I have a lathe, I thought this would be an interesting and challenging project, to turn a replacement bell for the vase.

I made segmented rings of various kinds of wood scraps I had (cherry, poplar, mahogany, maple). These were glued in a stack, mounted on my lathe and turned to fit the curve of the neck of the vase. It's almost a perfect match. I stained the lighter colored poplar, and finished it all with wet sanding in mineral oil up to 320 grit. Then the wood was oiled with boiled linseed oil, then waxed to a nice semi-gloss finish. It is not glued into place. Top photo is with the top sitting next to the vase. The bottom photo is with the bell in place.

Side view: the bottom part sits down inside the vase neck.

Top view: 5 stacked segmented wood sections.