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Trying out my new Delta 46-460 lathe and love it. It's such a step up from the HF 14"x40" play, play lathe that I had. This is the first attempt in making a dovetail bowl. There are a few errors, but not bad for not knowing what I was doing. It's made from black walnut and hard maple. It's almost 5" high and 10" wide. Over all, it was easier to make than you might think.

It's was late last night when I posted it and left out some details. Just a sliding dovetail joint with a 1/2" router, then I cut the half circles cut on the bandsaw. I was searching on YouTube for something new and found this bowl here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=200B23AC7D271D38 when I first saw it, I said no way, but once you see how, it's fairly easy to make. I have many idea on how to make them different. From mixing up the wood, like make each layer maple, walnut, maple walnut, by cutting each of the wood in half and making another sliding dovetail.

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That's cool. Nice job too. You should consider a blog on the build. :)
 

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Really cool bowl. Stuff like this makes me want to be a better builder. Awesome!
 

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Wonderful concept. Beautiful work!
 

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Neat design. However I think one more doveail in the middle of the bottom would keep the pattern going.

Did you really cut sliding dovetails with a bandsaw?
 

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PLease do a blog on how you made this. It's great!
 

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I saw a bowl like this being turned on youtube. Was that you?
It looks great.
 

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Beautiful bowl and great dovetails. I cannot quite see how you can cut those dovetails on a bandsaw, but
then it has been said that I am a few cards short of a full deck. Can you explain or preferably show how
this was done? You really did step outside the box on this one. Thank you for sharing, maybe.
 

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Truely a wonderful bowl. I love incorporating the dovetails and the contrast. I would love to see the process of this. Great job!
 

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Sorry guys, It's was late last night and I was excited about it, when I posted it and left out some details. I change the item description above, just reread it.

FlairWoodworks, there are dovetails on the bottom of the bowl, as well as, inside bottom of it. Sort of hard to see at the angle that I took it at.
 

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I think I found you on youtube. Just watched all 9 segments. Great job.
 

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I can't even wrap my head around how that's accomplished.
 

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Great idea I love new emotions and ideas like this simple , effective ,and we wonder why this is the first time we have seen this being done.Wow it seems so obvious it should have been tried before .I love it well done my friend. Alistair
 

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Thank you all for your encouraging comments. I'm not the guy that posted the video on youtube. I think he lives in Canada & I live in N.C. I've only turned 16 items before turning this bowl and that was on the old lathe.
 

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Wonderful bowl, I will watch the video
 

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great job. and what a great idea.
 

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this is very stunningly beautiful. dovetails on a bowl.. awesome
 
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