Plywood is not this fun at work

[Mike Tilley]

Have Been wanting to try this for some time now and am glad i did. The combinations are endless as well as the colors. wanted to use the brown to make them look somewhat like wood and the colors to make them stand out. Hope you like them

[James Combs]

Wow, love these. Segmented pieces of plywood correct? Dyed first? A simplified tutorial or progressive photos would be nice.

[John Keeton]

Mike that is some really interesting work! I bought some of that stuff one time, and it was so dusty to turn that I gave it away. Obviously, it has a lot of potential.

[Steve Vaughan]

WOW! Almost has a pottery look to them. Very nice!

[Michelle Rich]

very cool, luv the center one

[Donny Lawson]

Extreamly neat work. Love the look. Can you explain some of the process?

[Allan Ferguson]

Definitely different and interesting. Look good to.

[David E Keller]

These are quite interesting! Love the patterns that emerge from the segmenting!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Now that's cool! Love the colors and the grain variations! Nice work Mike!

[Curt Fuller]

That's some great stuff there! I'm scratching my head now trying figure out all those grain patterns.

[Harvey Ghesser]

Love it, Mike!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice Mike. Love the color and patterns.

[Bill Hensley]

I'm liking those a lot. I suspect they would be very marketable.

[Kathy Marshall]

Very cool! Neat patterns and I like the color accents.

[Harry Robinette]

I thought Rude Osolnik was the only one to turn plywood, I think he'd like this colored ply. Beautiful work Mike

[Bob Bergstrom]

Really neat stuff. Did you work it with carbide tools or just sharpen your high speed one a lot. Those resins can be nasty to tools.

[Jamie Donaldson]

Mike, if you're interested in seeing some really interesting layered plywood turnings, check out the work of Buzz Coren down in N. Carolina.

[James Roberts]

As if there weren't enough things I'd like to try you add another one! Very nice, I love the colors and "grain" that the plywood provides. You've got a winner here.

[Baxter Smith]

Very neat! I don't know what a Mardi Gras bowl would look like, but thats what came to mind!

[Dan Forman]

Really cool look to these.

Dan

[Dan Hintz]

A simplified tutorial or progressive photos would be nice.
A second vote for a simple tutorial :)

[Bob Rotche]

Really interesting stuff. Loads of possibilities and I agree with the comment that these would likely be very marketable.

[Mike Tilley]

Donny i cut the plywood into segments and assembled them just like a regular ring i reversed every other piece to change the design which also changed the color. The plywood is also stood up not laid down. Will try to cut some segments and post pics later this week.

[Jim Underwood]

What kind of glue did you use?

I'd be afraid of my glue joints failing with that kind of orientation.... Wouldn't there be a lot of end grain exposed?

I really like these bowls though. I think you did a good job with your forms and proportions, and the patterns the plywood makes is icing on the top...

[Ralph Lindberg]

I've seen various color-ply turnings before, but somehow had never thought about using them with segmented work.
The reason I have never tried using color-ply is the expense. Color-Ply can run more then tropical hardwoods. Penn-State pen blanks run $3/each and bottle-stoppers $10/each.

A 6x6x12 bowl blank can run $40.

A 4-inch panel, 24 by 48 is over a thousand dollars.

Going segmented would really rationalize the costs

[Roland Martin]

Very nice work Mike. Looks like the possibilities are endless, thanks for sharing.