Segmented pine bowl

I don’t know much about turning, but this looks pretty good to me…..

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

Pretty nice!. I hope my first segmented project turns out to be even half as good as yours!

-- Rich, Madison WI

You don’t have to make any excuses for this turning. It is very fine.

-- Maplewood, MN

At this rate you’ll be tv with Norm in a few weeks,,,,,,,Very good job!!

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Wonderful use of cutoffs and scraps. As I have said many times anytime we toss out any scrap of wood shortly thereafter we will have a need for it. I get yelled at a lot by my wife for “keeping all this clutter”.

Posts like this are really causing me a lot of problems. I really hadn’t put a lathe in my budget but now, after seeing works like this, I really want one and it is a long time until Christmas. Some many tools and so little available time (deep sigh).

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

no lessons needed … you did a fine job

welcome to lumberjocks

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Harry,

I noticed on your project something that happened to me when I tried a pine segmented woodturning (for the 2×4 competition this winter). The glue gets soaked into the endgrain and it does not look too well in the final product (no pun intended, it is definitely the glue). I think the main culprit is the pine which is too porous. I do not remember seeing this on bowls made out of hardwoods so it must be one of pine’s “properties”.

Have you ever tried to turn green wood? It takes almost no preparation time, there is no dust and the end result looks more natural. When I tried to turn pine a couple of weeks ago I was horrified when compared to turning green wood (way to much dust and the tool gets too hot).

Alin

-- -- Alin Dobra, Gainesville, Florida

Looks great to me!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Alin, yes there is some soak in as all the side joints are endgrain to endgrain, to minimise the soakage I mixed in some fine sanding dust… this is what gives it the darker colour.

Green wood yes done some, it is a lot easier than dry hardwood.
Turning this was easy though as the whole surface area has no endgrain to deal with.

Thanks all for the nice comments!