Orb

Stop it already… I have enough trouble with making “Andy’s” art boxes
this is way too much.. and beautiful..
Thanks for sharing. as punishment you now must post a Tutorial..
Just kidding.
TNX

-- Bruce. a mind is like a book it is only useful when open.

This is amazing work.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Greetings from the socialist capital of America – California.
Why do you think they call it the ’left coast’?

I’m with Abie on this. We need a tutorial.

Lee
Moreno Valley’s local has-been.
Servant of the Living God.

-- I may not have a lot of good ideas, but some of them are just incredible.

I was accidentally introduced to this via some discussion here on LJ regarding the angles needed to cut the plywood soccer ball… from there I found that Malcom Tibbetts wrote an article, “Twisted Possibilities”, that is avail. for download from his website,
http://www.tahoeturner.com/instructions.html

He also wrote a book on segmented turning with a chapter about his methods for this kind of project.

I don’t own a lathe, so I couldn’t do it his way even if I wanted to. My “thing” is scroll sawing… so I set about to make these with the scroll saw. See my description and pics in my Wavy Ribbon project…
...ask any questions that I haven’t answered already.

-- Spence in Skokie, IL

Very well done, great looking piece, we have to get you a lathe.

-- Tom D

Tom, Thanks… but I don’t have the floor space in my shop for a lathe… not even a mini!!

-- Spence in Skokie, IL

Another very nice design Spence.

-- Hawaiilad Larry

That is really cool.

-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario

Wow, nice work.

-- That was not wormy wood when I started working on it.

Larry, Did I describe it well enough? Have you begun to make one? (The 4-half-bowl Orb in 3/4” pine is much easier than the Wavy Ribbon and it will get you familiar with the method… I used 3 half-rings per half-bowl for the Orb. The Wavy Ribbon was cut from 1/2” plywood with 5 half-rings per half-bowl and is a lot more involved in sanding/shaping and sequential glue-up than the Orb… but if I can do it, then so can you.) I’ll bet if you used some of the pre-cutting methods in Rothman’s book, then your Orbs will really stand out… I’d love to see that.

(For that matter, you can probably just make a bowl using the method you already use, but skip making a bottom and cut each ring in half before gluing it into half-bowls… the main thing is consistency. If you have a large enough band saw, then make bottomless bowls and find a way to cut them to make equal half-bowls… that way you can skip the jig that I used… and some of the sanding might be easier.)

-- Spence in Skokie, IL

WOW! You do amazing work, my wife saw this over my shoulder and said, ” yours should learn how to make that, I like it”. Ok, well add it to my honey do list, and one day I will get to it.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

I’ll be at the North Easter Ohio Scrollers (NEOS) Picnic next weekend (May 17, 18, 19) giving 2 classes on how I made this project and the Wavy Ribbon project using the scroll saw. This year it is in Cuyahoga Falls, OH at the Quirk Center on Saturday and Sunday. I hope to meet some of you there!

Spencer Bloom

-- Spence in Skokie, IL

Very cool

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/