Fancy flutes on Mahogany Fruit Bowl

I don’t see an attached bowl?

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

Hi Mark – Didn’t attach did it ? I’ll try here again. Thanks for reply.! https://s3.amazonaws.com/ljimg/m4pedyu.jpg!

Hmm – won’t actually insert a picture here Doing something wrong

Sorry.

-- Col B.

Hmmm. Beddy, beddy interrresting. I wonder if it is “mahogany” wood or a “mahogany colored” casting. What do y’all think?

Have a good’un
Joe

-- rejo55, East Texas If there were no trees, there wouldn't be much wood.

My CNC mill could easily make this. It would be easiest with the rotary attachment, but doable without. I’m sure you could do it “by hand” on a lathe if you were able to somehow index the turning carefully and then use a router attached to it, like you sometimes see the attachment for fluting? But instead of a straight line, it would require a lot of up and down.

-- Lis - Michigan - http://www.missmooseart.com - https://www.etsy.com/people/lisbokt

A rose engine would do it but probably a lot cheaper to buy the CNC mill.

-- Troy in Melrose, Florida

The flutes can also be carved by hand or rotary tool but in this case I agree about the Rose Engine.

-- Barbara

You could do it on a router lathe like Alex’s.http://lumberjocks.com/projects/55767 use it to turn the outside then index it and make the flutes with a core box bit. I have the book Router Magic and they turn flamed finals in that way with a pattern.

Check out “The Principles & Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning” by John Jacob Holtzapffel from a libbrary or buy your own copy. Both hard bound and soft cover reprints are available.