Mobius

[Harvey Crouch]

I just finished this mobius. The wood is bloodwood and maple. Malcolm told me the number of bowl segments required but not how to assemble them. I have to admit that it took me 3 or 4 hours to figure it out. I am trying to keep up with Richard Madison a few miles up the road in Wimberly but he sets the bar pretty high. Critque welcome.

[Don Abele]

WOW...that's amazing.

Thanks for sharing.

Be well,

Doc

[Richard Madison]

Very nice work Harvey. What are the dimensions, and how many halves and quarters does it have?

[Harvey Crouch]

Thanks, Richard. It is 18" high; 13" wide. 8 quarter bowls and 3 half bowls.

[John W Dixon]

Great Work! Those things just fascinate me.

John

[Steve Schlumpf]

Very nice work Harvey! Really like the color contrast between the woods! Great form!

[Jeff Nicol]

Harvey, These things amaze me and I hope to someday achieve such a great feat! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Jeff

[Toney Robertson]

Wow that is cool.

I can't imagine where to start.

Toney

[Scott Donley]

What Toney said ! Very Very nice !

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful Harvey. That is really well done.

[Ryan Baker]

Excellent work! It looks great!

[Malcolm Tibbetts]

Harvey, congratulations. Not many turners are brave enough to attempt this. It's a lot of time invested before you know if it's going to come together.

[alex carey]

Very cool, never figured out how to do this and probably never will.

[Jarrod McGehee]

that's a crazy, cool contorted "thing". nice work on it.

[Joe Aliperti]

Wow that is cool.

I can't imagine where to start.

Toney

Sounds like you need to start with 3 1/2 bowls. Not sure where to go from there. :confused: :D


Very nice piece, Harvey. I also aspire to be able to do one of these someday.

[Tim Self]

You guys sure set the bar high. I'm still trying to figure out how to use a bowl gouge effectively and then I see works of art such as these! Almost makes me wanna sell my lathe and get an old treadle machine. Then I might have a viable excuse. Amazing work.

[charlie knighton]

very nice, thanks for sharing

[Gary Kvasnicka]

An amazing piece! Very well done!

I should try one of these as I am good at making bottomless bowls...some people call um funnels, I call um bottomless bowls.:D

[Richard Madison]

Hey Gary,
That would be an easy way to try one. Just make two identical "funnels" with 45 degree straight sides about 3/8" thick. They do not have to be stave construction. Cut 'em in half, sand the cut edges flat and coplanar, and reassemble. You might surprise yourself.

[Joe Aliperti]

Is the reason stave construction is usually used so that the glue joints for the quarter and half bowls don't stand out? Instead you have glue joints evenly spaced across the whole ribbon?

[Malcolm Tibbetts]

Is the reason stave construction is usually used so that the glue joints for the quarter and half bowls don't stand out? Instead you have glue joints evenly spaced across the whole ribbon?

Joe, if you used ring-stacked, constructed bowls, your half-bowl and quarter-bowl sections would only be connected with an end-grain to end-grain joint. By using stave constructed bowls, the final assembly is much stronger (along with looking nicer).

[Harlan Coverdale]

Very impressive work Harvey. Great stuff.

[Art Bodwell]

Harvey,
Great job. What is the diameter of the bowls and length of the stave?

Art Bodwell

[Harvey Crouch]

Art, the staves were rough cut to 3 7/8". You will lose an 1/8" or so while turning. The bowl diameters are 7 1/2".