My first Feature Ring

[Bill Bulloch]

When I posted my first segmented bowl, Richard Madison advised me to work on the basics before moving on to the more complicated patterns. That made good sense, so for the past four months I have been working on the joinery. Well, I finally decided to try a more complicated feature ring.

This feature ring came from Bill Kandler's DVD. I modified his ring a little in that his ring has two zigs and two zags and two strips of purpleheart. Mine has two zigs and one zag and one strip of purpleheart -- My purpleheart board wasn't long enough for a two zagger.

Overall I am satisified with the alignment, but maybe not so pleased with my wood selection; I probably should have used something other than the cherry in the feature ring.

It's Walnut, Cherry, Purpleheart and Yellowheart. 11 inch diameter and 6 inches high.

What ya think??

[Mike Golka]

Looking good Bill, keep em coming.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Bill - the joinery looks really good! Alignment looks good! Nice design! Sure is lots of color! Will be interesting to see what it looks like after the Cherry has aged for a while!

I think you did good! Thanks for sharing!

[Roland Martin]

I agree with Steve. When the patina of the cherry comes in, the yellowheart should really jump out. Very nice work Bill. Your joinery is very well done also.

[Paul Douglass]

NICE! That has got to take a lot of patience.

[kenneth walker]

I love the color. great job

[John Keeton]

Great job, Bill!! Superb joinery, and I looked closely.;) I do disagree though, in that I see two zags and one zig, but then I looked at it with a mirror and now I am confused!?!?!?:confused::confused::D

[Richard Madison]

Bill,

I think your one-zagger looks great. Ditto what Steve and others said on joinery and alignment. Nice work.