I just made a bowl from bloodwood and maple. I took a piece of maple and g lued it to the block of bloodwood and then turned it, giving the bowl a map le lip.
While this worked fine and Maple is (relatively) cheap, to do it with more expensive woods seems like a waste. For example I have a lot of black cher ry from a tree I felled and thought it would be nice to make a bowl with a black or dark brown lip, like walnut or ebony. But I can't see taking a pi ece of ebony and basically wasting 90% of it.
So, my thought was how could I cut a groove around the outside and fill it with a nice contrasting color to jazz it up a bit? Does anybody have a tec hnique for this?
Jim