Hello everyone,
Yesterday I was hollowing a bowl/vase that I made from glued up pieces of Baltic birch plywood, 6"h x 6 1/2"w. As I was finishing the inside with a round nose scrapper, I slightly cut through the bowl very near the base. Luckily, I had already sanded the outside and I'm pleased with it.
My question is, can this bowl be saved? I would like to repair the "tear through" from the inside. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
Can post a picture if it will help.
-Roy
Depending on the shape of the bowl and if you have any of the plywood left, you can carefully complete the tear through, all the way around into a circle, so you have a bowl with a hole in the bottom. Then turn another, thicker piece of the same material, into a fancy base with a tenon the same size as the hole and carefully glue it into the hole. So, you basically go from a bowl with a hole to a bole with a foot. I've used this technique on several occasions to salvage bowls and a modified form of it to salvage a box.
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I sincerely apologize.
I thought the photo link would work without having to sign in to Yahoo, apparently you do. The group is a woodturning group and is called "TurningAndTalking" and can be found here:
My folder, under photos, is named RoyFek. Here's the link once more:
I hope this helps and sorry for the inconvenience.
Roy
Hey, Roy! We customarily post photos on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking and don't have to go through all that Yahoo stuff. Just a suggestion!*G*
I'll weigh in here, having done the same thing last week! I was finishing off an apple bowl. While taking super-thin gouge passes, a disk just came off. Voila: A bowl just became a funnel! Talk about thin -- this is it.
Thoroughly bummed, I stewed for hours, then reverse chucked the bow^H^H^Hfunnel and cleaned it up. Grabbed a lacewood scrap, bandsawed out an oversized circle, and turned a tenon for a press-fit of the funnel. Well, after some CA and cleanup, the applewood funnel^H^H^H^H^H^Hbowl had a fancy lacewood circle in the base.
Just be sure to line up the grain before the CA sets. DAMHIKT.
John Pierce Maker of Fine Wood Chips and Sawdust
Alternately, you could take a nice piece of fancy wood and do the same thing with it. Cut off the really thin part, then turn a bottom with a tenon that will just fit inside the bottom of the now-bottomless bowl and glue that together. It'll look like you planned it that way.
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