Quick Bowl Repair

[Hayes Rutherford]

I knew there would be cracks in this customer supplied Russian Olive when I roughed out several bowls over a year ago. It sat in firewood lengths a long time before I received it and when I told them their roughed out pieces had some cracks they still wanted bowls because it was from the family homestead. Some low cost repairs were needed and here is how I went about it.
259756Using a slotting cutter mounted in a drill press, I slowly pushed the bowl into the cutter. I chose not to go all the way though.

I turned a side grain disc the same dimension as the cutter(2") and test fit while still mounted.
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The grain was oriented slightly off the bowl grain so the wood movement would be close but maximize strength, then it was pre cut slightly oversize.
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Glued in with Titebond II, then scraped flush with the surface.
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The repaired bowl ready for final sanding and finish. Thin shellac was used as a sanding sealer. It works well for me on Russian Olive in general and helped keep the glue from spreading.
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I hope someone might find this informative. I have used a biscuit jointer as well in this manner but they can be difficult to use depending on the repair location.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Hayes I like that idea. I have a couple of bowls with the same problem. Thank you for sharing.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Now that works! Great idea! Thanks for sharing!

[James Combs]

I will also be keeping that method in mine. As said by the others, thanks for sharing.

[Dan Forman]

Very resourceful!

Dan

[Richard Jones]

Great idea! I have some slotting cutters that I got for hinges on boxes, will give them a try.

thanks for sharing