how to add some color to a bowl?

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

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jtpryan
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Are you asking about filling the groove with a compound. Oh yes. Craft Supplies, WoodCraft, Rockler, Packard Supply all have stuff you can mix and put into the groove.

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746265730 You will not the colored bands top and bottom. There are wood epoxy mixed with a powdered color I bought from Craft Supplies.

Also, for things like a alternate colored ring, look into segmented turning (that's what this photo is). You could make up a ring of Ebony and glue it to the main bowl blank.

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Ralph E Lindberg

Thanks. Nice work by the way.

So, with the segmented thing. Let me see if I understand the process I could use.

Cut the blank in a circle on the band saw Mount it to a face plate and turn the outside and a tenon or recess in the bottom Make the "segments" out of the expensive stuff Glue them to each other and the top of the blank Mount the blank to the chuck and then hollow it out and finish the edge.

Does that sound right?

_Jim

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jtpryan

Forgot to ask. The picture you posted, the epoxy and powdered color was put into a groove you cut?

-Jim

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jtpryan

See

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- Kevin Neeley has some great examples of segmented turning, as well as great pictorial tutorials on making them (see
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for instance). Basic segmented vessels are pretty straight forward once you see the process...

...Kevin

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Kevin Miller

glued it to the block of bloodwood and then turned it, giving the bowl a maple lip.

expensive woods seems like a waste. For example I have a lot of black cherry 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 piece of ebony and basically wasting 90% of it.

with a nice contrasting color to jazz it up a bit? Does anybody have a technique for this?

I have some stuff (inlace?) that comes in a kit with colored granules, and two liquids that you mix all together and smear into the groove. Not much luck with it. One bowl was brought back with a large chunk of the inlay which had fallen out.

My usual filler for voids and knot holes is 5 min. epoxy with a drop of liquid black dye and mixed with turquoise chips and pieces of brass. It sands out looking good and I have never had any to fall out.

If you do either of these in a groove it would be a good idea to make the groove wider at the bottom to discourage a piece popping out.

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Gerald Ross

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Russ Stanton

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 cherry 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 piece 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 technique for this?

Jim

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I'm new to turning, altho I've been doing woodworking for over 40 years, and have never tried this but think it should work. Carve put a groove on the outside of your bowl and add some inlay banding. Normally the groove is routed out on flat surfaces. The banding is quite thin, ~1/20", and should bend easily around a bowl as long as the diameter isn't real small.

Inlay stringing could be added anywhere on the bowl as it will bend in all directions.

This site sells both type of inlays.

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Art

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Artemus

Basically yes

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Ralph E Lindberg

Time consuming but lots of fun, and doesn't waste nearly as much really costly wood

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Ralph E Lindberg

So I went to WoodCraft last night to pick up some epoxy and dye. The fello w there wasn't sure which, if any,of the dyes they had was "compatible" wit h epoxy. How do I tell? Does anybody and a brand name of each that work t ogether and where they got them?

-Jim

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jtpryan

-Jim

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Russ Stanton

there wasn't sure which, if any,of the dyes they had was "compatible" with epoxy. How do I tell? Does anybody and a brand name of each that work together and where they got them?

I use TransTint liquid available from many woodworking supply houses. Probably not in a local store.

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Gerald Ross

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