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Excellent work and excellent spirit. Glad you are helping as you can. Thanks for sharing this with us. DW

Excellent work on that bird. What woods were used? DW

Excellent work on that arrowhead. Thanks for sharing it with us. DW

Very nice work on those boxes Jim. I like them a lot. DW

Made this box to put my gift to my parents for their anniversary. Wood used is Poplar and BB ply (the book ) finished with colonial maple stain and top coated with lacquer. DW

It most certainly would violate copyright law doing it that way. If you got written permission to do that from the magazine company then it would be ok. What magazine did it come out of? If you could give me more information on the name and any other information I can look it up perhaps in the library or find it online. DW

Excellent work Mike. I really like the design and the wood choices. Thanks for sharing them with us. Have you made up a pattern for this one. If so I would be interested in it. DW

Very Nice work. Glad you got the recognition you deserve on them. DW

Looks good Kevin. It comes back fast DW

Great looking Dragons Sue. Very nice work on them. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW

I like it a a lot. Thanks for showing us. DW

I had tried some time back to make a bowl with bamboo but the cutting board I had gotten was one of the 19 - 20 mm thick ones and it when cut had huge voids... the board only had 2 good layers the top and the bottom. Anyway I digress. I decided to try again but this time I got some 1cm or .4 in thick 8x10 bamboo cutting boards from the local Wally world and made this. Bamboo cuts real easily and finishes great. Made the pattern from the scrollmania website. The bowl was sealed with Tung Oil then top coated with satin lacquer. DW

Excellent work Mike! Someone is really going to enjoy that. DW

Excellent Cutting Marg. Thanks for showing us. DW

Excellent John. Looking forward to seeing your pictures. DW

Kevin have you ever glued up a panel only to wish you had a way to smooth the whole side without a ton of sanding... the planer / thicknesser will do it quite nicely. If you are careful you can use it to reclaim pallet wood, you need to watch for nails and staples. You got a great deal. DW

Excellent work. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW

That sounds like a LOT of work but you are capable of it. It looks great. I'd really love to see pics of the finished item. It should be awesome. DW

An excellent combination of talent / skill sets. Very distinctive and well done. Thanks for sharing it with us. DW

Looks like you have been real busy John. Great use of the boxes. Thanks for sharing them with us. DW

Excellent I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing it with us. DW

Very Nice box. You have made a heirloom that will be used for years. Thanks for sharing it with us. DW

Think about this guys. If you start with thicker walls say 3/8 of an inch then when you sand to blend and smooth the rings together then you do not have the worry of sanding thru the side ... I have done this several times... some of the bowls the sides are so thin you can almost see thru them. The absolutely hardest part is dust control when sanding. You will be creating a ton of fine sawdust so please wear a mask. After a while you can get to the point that after the glue dries you can rough shape and blend the bowl in less than an hour most times, of course the fine hand sanding will take a bit longer. Sand and shape the inside 1st then glue the bottom on and then shape the outside. The goal here is to get a uniform wall thickness as well as shape. Your 1st bowl makes a great rainy day project DW

Chris here is a quick and dirty table .... all the angles are very close to what is needed as I used rounded measurements to do the math. This gives you a bit of wiggle room for mistakes and unforseen events. Carole Rothman has a book she got published by Fox Chapel Publishing called Wooden Bowls from the scroll saw. It is well worth getting if you have not done so. In the book she walks you thru some easy to master concepts right through some things that are amazing. Ok here is a simple table you can use - Remember the table will be set LEFT side down and you will be cutting clockwise ( rotating toward the down side ) wood thickness ring thickness degree to set 1/2 inch 1/2 45 degrees 3/4 inch 1/2 34 degrees 1 inch 1/2 27 degrees 1/2 inch 3/8 37 degrees 3/4 inch 3/8 27 degrees 1 inch 3/8 21 degrees 1/2 inch 1/4 27 degrees 3/4 inch 1/4 19 degrees 1 inch 1/4 14 degrees Hope this helps DW

Pattern created using Dave Van Ess's PolyDraw. Cut from 1/2 inch Baltic Birch Ply, stained a colonial maple and finished with a satin polyeurathane. The dish is 7 in long and 1 1/2 deep. DW