Segmented Platter

[Bill Bulloch]

Last month the demonstrator at our club demonstrated turning platters. He did his from a green blank, but (ofcourse) I had to segment mine. I was surprised at how easy and fast these little buggers go together -- maybe a couple of hours each overall.

The wife gets the credit for the art work.

What ya think?


P.S. I made both boxes and stars designs, but if you look at the star designs from up close they might look like boxes -- blink your eyes a few times and they look like stars. I'm guessing that this has to do with the orientation of the wood grain of the pieces surrounding the star. I'll experiment with the next one.

[Alan Trout]

Bill,

Those are all very very nice. Lovely indeed.

Alan

[David E Keller]

Somebody has been busy! That's a great looking group of platters. Kudos to you and your wife.

[Matt Ranum]

Beautiful job on those!

Don't suppose you could be talked into a tutorial on those stars or boxes could ya?

[Dennis Ford]

WOW those look great. Really nice platters, your joints are very clean. Even at 2 hours each, that is quite a bit of work (it would take much longer for me).

[Greg Just]

Nice job - they look great

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

Bill,
Wonderful plates. Your joinery is outstanding. Someone has a talented wife. I hope you two haven't spent your lives competing with each other for role of #1 Artist in the house.
fmr

[Jerry Marcantel]

That's some pretty nice lookng peices, Bill..... How big are they?.......... Jerry (in Tucson)

[David DeCristoforo]

Those are really nice looking. I like the one your wife painted with the flowers the best.

"...they might look like boxes -- blink your eyes a few times and they look like stars..."

M C Escher strikes again...

[Joe Herrmann]

Very nice job.

[John Keeton]

Bill, excellent work on these. On the star patterns, I do think the illusion is the result of the surrounding wood species and the grain pattern, but they look great nonetheless! Fantastic joinery - and, the wife did a great job as well.

[Curt Fuller]

Those are all beautiful!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Bill you have been busy and they are beauties. I really like all of them. Your wife did well.

[Bill Bulloch]

That's some pretty nice lookng peices, Bill..... How big are they?.......... Jerry (in Tucson)

Jerry, they are as big as my Delta 46-460 will allow --- just over 12 inches in diamature, except the Star Patter one on the top row. I had to cut it down to about 11.5 inches to get some chipping out.

[gary Zimmel]

Nice work on the platters Bill...
You and your wife make a great team.

[Fred Perreault]

Bill, Gorgeous for sure. The platters with the 3-D illusion are fantastic.

[Bill Bulloch]

Beautiful job on those!

Don't suppose you could be talked into a tutorial on those stars or boxes could ya?


I don't know about a Tutorial, but I'll try and tell how I do it. I'll put this on a different Thread titled: "How I make a 3D looking Box"

[Baxter Smith]

Very nice looking platters!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Bill - very nice work by both you and your wife on all these platters! Love the 3D effect to some of the inlays! Thanks for sharing!