Wavy Bowls

[John Beaver]

These are part of a new technique I'm working on. I call it my "wavy" bowl series.
I'm still experimenting with the technique as well as what form works best with the "wave."

[David Christopher]

John, those are beautiful... can you tell us more about the technique

[David E Keller]

Very cool look. I like all of them.

[Tom Hamilton]

John those are very cool. How did you do that, especially number 3. Thanks, Tom

[Richard Madison]

Great looking work John. You will want to be careful about issues with cross grain joints.

[William Payer]

I like them all John. Please give us a little tutorial on how these are done.:D

[Scot Roberge]

These are really nice accents to turnings that are already beutiful examples of your work, John. Definitely have the "how'd he do that" factor. I'm guessing you are roughing the forms out on the lathe, then cutting them apart and gluing back together with accents between the pieces, then finalizing the form back on the lathe.

[Darren Mullin]

great looking bowls. My favourite is #4. I am just learning to turn bowls. It looks like I have a lot to learn

[Moshe Eshel]

I won't even guess, the wave form just makes it very difficult with any technique I thought of... In my opinion these are really nice bowls, beautiful even, regardless of the technical achievement - they just look GOOD!

[Jim Kountz]

Very nice looking bowls!! I too would like to know more about the making of the wave series!!

[Steve Mawson]

Yep I agree with everyone else. Pretty neat, I will be waiting for the tutorial as well.

[Tom Baugues]

Wow....simply beautiful.

Tom

[Gary Conklin]

Those are great #2+3 are my favorites. Love it! Tutorial???

[Bernie Weishapl]

Those are great looking pieces. I like #3. How did you do those?

[Barry Stratton]

Very nice idea!

Have you tried it on a natural edge bowl? Mimic the bark curve with the wave....

[Jeff Luedloff]

Wow very nice work. i really like the walnut bowl, awesome job

[Jeff Nicol]

Looks like fun to to and the result is wonderful! Nice complimentary woods and basic shapes.

Thanks for more ideas!

Jeff

[Mike Golka]

Great looking bowls John! I'll be trying to figure out "how'd he do that" all day now.

[Chris Stolicky]

Those are cool.

Good job.

[Rob Cunningham]

Great looking bowls. I'm also curious about the process.

[Mark Patoka]

I'll join the crowd also and say very nice work also. A tutorial would be great as I'm assuming there is some bandsaw work and gluing together the blank before the spinning begins.

[John Beaver]

Thanks Everyone,

I really appreciate all the responses.

I will definitely put together a tutorial at some point, but I have a few kinks I want to perfect before I share the whole process. I will say, that while the basic concept is not that complicated, it has taken me a few months, and the creation of a couple of complex jigs, to be able to achieve the result with acceptable precision.

As to Richard Madison's comment on the grain... I'm aware this was risky, and I've tried some tricks to see if I can make this work. I guess only time will tell. Waiting for some humidity here in So. Cal. to see how the wood moves.

[Roger Wilson]

These are part of a new technique I'm working on. I call it my "wavy" bowl series.

Very, very nice. Something original and good looking. A +1 on sharing the technique.

[Jim Underwood]

Wow. I really like these. I'm hoping you won't keep us in suspense too long about the technique....

[Richard Madison]

John, Thanks for your response. I have some laminated pieces from 20 years ago, back when I thought crossed grain laminations made the piece stronger. Although none has fallen apart (that I know about), one can now feel some of the joint areas where originally there was a deep, glassy smooth polyurethane finish, so there has definitely been movement.

Also have two new ribbon forms with some cross grain joints (think I posted them here), so they are not for sale for a couple of years at least. Maybe never.

[Thom Sturgill]

Way cool! I also want to know how...

[Paul Atkins]

Another vote for 'How'd he do it?' Nice.

[Mark Cothren]

Looks like some very nice work on some very nice bowls!

[Tom Giacomo]

They are all beautiful bowls, nice job.