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I'm going to make my daughter-in-law, Angelica, a birthday present
which is going to be a bowl. And I'll be making a lid or top as well.
Now this will have a simple shape to it but will be made out of four
species of wood. However, a keen eye will see five types of wood
in the picture below but I'll talk more about that later.
Making A Bowl
The top or lid will be made out of Goncalo Alves, which
is on top of the stack of wood, followed by black walnut, sapele, maple
and last is black walnut again. Now if you're wondering about those
smaller pieces on the right, those are some scrap pieces of alder I had
laying around that will become sacrificial for this project. Alder is
soft and should work good for this because it's easy to cut. This will
all make sense soon.
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Here I'm gluing up all my pieces. Notice
the thin pieces of alder under the top. That will be cut away later.
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I plan on turning this bowl in my lathe but I wanted the edges machined
so I would have an even gripping surface to chuck on.
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I switched over to my four-jaw chuck here, which makes
centering something like this very easy. I plan on working on the bottom
first and to make sure I'm in the center, I marked an X with my pencil
and then used my tailstock with a pointed pin to find center.
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Here is what it looks like after a few minutes of turning. The diameter
is just under six inches. Now it's time to turn it around.
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I used an indicator to make sure I had the first side running true and
then turned the other end. I faced the end and then used a pencil to
layout for my handle on the lid.
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The depth is .450 deep (just shy of 1/2") which should
work good for grabbing and removing the lid. Now it's time to cut the
lid off.
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I used a parting tool centered on the alder to cut away
most of the wood between the arrows. The leftover amount equals about
one inch but I didn't want to use the parting tool for this because... sure
enough it would get damaged once it was cut free.
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Now I planed on this from the start so I cut the remaining piece with my
hand saw. This way I have complete control
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And there we go, the lid is removed and this method worked out really
well. Now it's time to bore out a bunch of wood.
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