Can you turn Plywood

I've seen a lot of segmented turnings that were constructed of plywood.

I do turn ply from time to time. Pieces glued and stacked on top of each other and then cut to size. Comes out looking fine even though the grain is a little regular.

Paul

Yup. Sharp tools, respirator, face shield. Cut squares, stack and glue, I prefer rotating each layer 90* from the previous so grain alternates up the stack. Watch for voids- they can make some world-class catches.

Someone here a while ago did a stack-up, then cut the blank on an angle so the "grain" of the plys were diagonal to the form. Very interesting patterns and simple elegant form.

It can look amazingly good for what it is, or it can look like the cheap crap it can be.

/vic

Yes. Somewhere I have an article about a guy who does quite well with that. Uses birch ply, dyes. Here 'tis - Stephen Gleasner. The item pictured in the newpaper cliping does not appeal to my taste, but those Del Mano folks deal his work, so it must appeal to folks with way more money than I have.

Try lee valley, they sell dyed blanks cut on the diagonal, each layer dyed different colours, I think they call it diamond wood. also look for marine grade plywood(its either marine or aircraft, something like that)it doesnt have voids but is more nicer, higher quality and more expensive.

As I recall, Rude Osolnik created a number of stunning pieces in "plywood". I saw a story somewhere where he had run acrossa local cabinet shop that had a bunch of cabinet plywood cutoffs. Since they were scrap to the cabinet shop, Rude asked for some. The cabinet maker agreed and Rude went on to figure out how to laminate them together and create truly outstanding pieces. See the folowing site for an example: