Tom Hartranft
08-25-2013, 4:01 PM
Experimented adding some contrasting-color exotic wood plugs to two small bowls. Plugs only used on outside walls.
Bowl on left is spalted maple with alternating 1/2" and 3/8" diameter Padauck plugs every 45* turned down flush to sides of the bowl. One plug added on bottom for another contrast.
Bowl on right is Flaming Box Elder with alternating 1/2" and 3/8" diameter Purpleheart plugs every 45* standing proud of the bowl sides and rounded over. The Box Elder wood was punky so I kept a thicker bowl wall than I'd normally do to avoid failure in the lathe.
Used lathe indexing to set up plug hole drilling every 45* after basic bowl shape was completed. Cut all the plugs with plug cutters; rounded the heads of the Flaming Box Elder plugs with hand sanding before gluing into sides of bowl.
Tom
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Bowl on left is spalted maple with alternating 1/2" and 3/8" diameter Padauck plugs every 45* turned down flush to sides of the bowl. One plug added on bottom for another contrast.
Bowl on right is Flaming Box Elder with alternating 1/2" and 3/8" diameter Purpleheart plugs every 45* standing proud of the bowl sides and rounded over. The Box Elder wood was punky so I kept a thicker bowl wall than I'd normally do to avoid failure in the lathe.
Used lathe indexing to set up plug hole drilling every 45* after basic bowl shape was completed. Cut all the plugs with plug cutters; rounded the heads of the Flaming Box Elder plugs with hand sanding before gluing into sides of bowl.
Tom
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