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Thank Joe. This village has taught me well. I am getting more comfortable doing bowls now. Also you guys taught me inlay techniques. Pretty good tips got me this far in 1 year.

It took all year so far to choose and make a project. Any shape can be a bowl. So I decided to make a boot bowl. More specifically a desert boot bowl. Bowl: Wood is from a free source of discarded wine aged oak slots. I had to glue up 3 slots to make a boot. The cactus is Baltic birch plywood with a really thinned down green acrylic paint. The white oak slots were 0.3 inches thick so I needed a few rings around to make a decent height of a bowl. White oak is a bit different than red oak in ways of grain structure. The glue up of oak slots was bad because not all slats are the same thickness. I don't have a planer so I attempted with palm sander. Lot of work. Hard to get a straight edge without a table saw. Anyway not having a perfectly flat wood to start with causes issues when gluing the rings together. This bowl will NOT hold liquid. I had to use baking soda mixed with saw dust any instant glue to fill in big gaps. The cactus had some really sharp turns. I had to go very slow around the tight turns since I was using stack cut inlay technique the thickness was 0.55 inches. With really tight turns I decided to use Pegas #1 mgt. Some of my learnings from this site was to make super high tension on blades and go slow. General Finishes finish "Armor R Seal" was used. I still have 2 more coats to make it shinier. Bottle stoppers: Niles Bottle stoppers web site has a gallery of customer art work. So I noticed that some of the turned pieces look like bombs and missiles. Of course you get other ideas in the middle of a project. So I came up with a play on words "Lets Get Bombed" and used that idea on 2 bottle stoppers. There was no "bombers" on her gallery. Since these stoppers are used for alcohol consumption. I had to play with words "How can you get bombed without a bomber" ? So I had to make a B2 bottle stopper. Oh your doing shots !!!! Then the A10 is the best. Ok someone else can make the AC130 gunship. Actually this would be a great theme for military bars. B2- wood black walnut. Armor R Seal for final finish. Since this was a quick 1 day project. I only did a silhoette. I needed thickness to mount the bottle stopper. Since you getting higher I wanted to point up. So thickness on bottom does not match the actual thin wind trailing edge. A10- Red Oak shows some good grain that indicates wind around the wings. I should have made dowels for the engines. But this was a quick get it done project. Again thickness of the wood is needed for bottle stopper usage. I don't drink but I can always find someone that likes the stoppers. For once I already know what my next project is. It will take a long while to make. I only have weekends to play. And it will be something I have not done. I know there will be re-starts. My order of wood from "Cherokee woods" gets here tomorrow. I am getting excited. Me. Mark Eason

That Rose would take me all year. Great job. Pink rose is my wifes favorite. Intarsia just takes a lot of time. Me. Mark Eason

oh a frozen Eurythmics , I heard the song as i was reading it but then....

my favorite aircraft. I was contractor on Edwards air force base when 3 of these guys were practicing. Wow ! The Brrrrr is really loud. Me. Mark Eason.

@rustynail So I just opened up a different pdf. The phone says it was opening with google pdf viewer. Then when I clicked it the ball went away. The big blue logo of the software. Now was that what you saw?

Very very nice. The alternating slats give it a farm feel. Then the trees just add to it perfectly. Two thumbs up.

Very good Frank. The shape of the lyrics form an old record 33 rpm.

Wow, look at all those tiny cat hairs. I was wondering what you have been up to. It has been a while. Now I know why it has been so long. Me. Mark Eason

it will probably your best seller. The last one shows the eyes closer to the center. It might change the look and apeal if the eyes were higher up on all of them.

interesting. . The pattern has a mans silhouette between the legs of hulk. That must the heppnerguy. The wife is hulk. I don't see where you drilled for the inlay. I need to learn how to get the blade through no holes.

I had to look up OA. I remembered my older brother had that on his uniform, "Order of the Arrow" boy scout patch.

Yes great movie. Good scrollsaw project. The wood brings out the wild west feel. Maybe add a teepee (tipi) in the background. I tried an experiment by listening to the book then watching the movie. The scenes of rolling hills and buffalo was on my bed room ceiling as i listened to the book at night. The next week I saw the movie and the same rolling hills and buffalo scene as on the screen. The director and producer did a great job at holding the scenes to the book. But the ending was different.

Mike, I am in the sanding inner rings step on another bowl right now. Here is 2 pics showing a board thickness of 0.3 inches and a wall thickness of 0.125 inchs. My angle was 26.65 deg. I had a too thin blade. I had issues controlling the cut on the line. So sanding shows lower wall thickness. blade #1 on hard oak 0.3 in thick was a bit too small of blade. After I am done I will post this project. But for now I dont want to show the shape.

Mike, great your asking questions! If you use the same space between lines you get a 45 deg angle. Ok let's go thru some numbers... thickness 0.5 inchs lets say you want 30deg angled side. tan angle = offset / thick. tan 30 * thick 0.577 * 0.5 = 0.288 offset. so the spaces between circles or (ellipses) would be 0.288 inches. The thickness of the blade does not really change the offset but a little. Unless your using a big thick blade. So consistency is good. Stay with the same blade thickness. As others have said. It is not terrible if you have to change blade types. The offset between lines 0.288, is the bowl wall thickness. The number of rings times the thickness is the height of the bowl. The next picture shows the cut rings as they were cut. The 2nd picture shows reverse stacked rings. Please note this was an experiment of changing angles. This shows changing wall thicknesses because the angle changes. As you reverse stack the rings the wall thicknesses line up on the previous ring. If you cut perfectly, there is no sanding. But expect sanding. As your cutting at an angle it is easy to put pressure left or right on the blade. This pressure will effect the cut angle a little bit. Pay attention to the blade pressure left and right to reduce sanding. Glue the rings together don't glue to bottom yet. If there is no bottom it gives easy access to inner rings. Sand the inside rings smooth. Then glue bottom on. Then sand outside. Me. Mark Eason

Hi (Mike) ? I do like to make bowls. I have not made segmented bowls. I do use the technique of board to bowls. Any shape can be a bowl. In the board to bowl technique the ring height is based on material thickness. The bowl wall thickness is based on the angle you choose and the material thickness. Use the tangent equation. tan A = opp / adj . "opp" is the material thickness. Here is some pics that might help. This shows a fixed angled bowl. As for patterns, pick a shape then add properly calculated offset for each ring. I suggest you start from the center. The more the rings the higher the bowl. Also the corners get bigger. You can start with the outside ring and add offsets inward, but you can run out of bowl height. And have bottom too small. Like I did. This ellipse now looks like and egyptian boat. Ok, on the pattern pic a spot to drill tiny holes. I choose the end. Drill these holes at the same angle as you calculated. Drill bit size gets tricky. you want the smallest size of hole. But the drill bit has to be longer than the angled thickness. The bigger the hole the more sanding. I hope this helps. If more info is needed then ask more questions. Me. Mark Eason

It could be that the user has urgent medical issues. Thus no cleanup. But do get ther serial number. You can find the log of when it was manufactured. Ray helped me to find a good one. I paid $350. Me. Mark Eason

I thought it was a fang tooth male.

Good gift. It will add to your creativity for sure. You can also add color tint to your spray. I just went through your gallery. You do some really nice work. Some of your projects use color. Me. Mark Eason

Well this is a add on gift.. It is more of name tag / gift. I wanted to play with a compound cut. I have not tried this because of lettering. So this name tag shows 2 cellos on one side and grand niece's name on other side. She plays a cello but is getting a higher tech electric cello for a gift. Electric cello is better for college students. I used myrtle wood but thought it needed a slight stain. I used a slight orange dye over the stained letters and cello only. The rest had no orange dye. Font is "Playbill". My theme was going toward a western look.

The grain does look like the wind is blowing. The wind adds to the scene .

Well that approach did not work. I saw a newbie joined. So I made a new posting with their log in name. But no response from Myrtlewood.

That is pretty good imagination. I would never have seen birds being rose pedals.

It seems by your idea you already took some form of medicine. Expanding your thought.... Project light on to the wooden piece, then have bubbles of water near the light source.

blade 2/0. My thought is the slant is need to be more on thinner wood. The thicker the wood the less angle. The camera is over the "I" (above). So that shows the slant. Here is more pics. Alien is centered, then the "I" is centered.