wood bowls

[NormanAlbert]

Haven't posted projects in a while. These are made from Florida grown red cedar. The rectangular tray is spalted Hickory

[scottp55]

LIKING that a Lot!!
Is Cedar all one branch/log?
Cedar has almost a red jelly look in some....what did you finish with?

Is that 1 vector, with the Fluting Toolpath going down and the up?
Or did you rotate a single vector around the center?

Looks like a couple different size bits(Ball Nose?)

Very good placement on the Trim Vector boundary!!

Underpriced!!
Congrats!
scott

[jay pieper]

Really like the carve on the bowls, would like a little more information
on how you did it if that is okay...The wood choices make them very
interesting and pleasing to look at. I must agree with Scott on being
way under priced.
Thank you for posting would like to see more!!!!!

[NormanAlbert]

Hi Guys: These were all experiments on technique. Some have one straight line repeated, some are wiggly line half way across. I used a penetrating epoxy which turned the red cedar darker. Now keeping my eye open for larger cookies to do into a deeper bowls. Here in Marion County, Florida, prices are not what they should be. In Colorado I could probably get near $100.00 each. All where done with a .25 ball nose. Larger pieces would need much bigger cutters.

[scottp55]

Thanks Norman!
It's FUN doing concept cuts and proto'ing!!
Aah...Epoxy. Mind sharing what penetrating epoxy you used? Looks great for your Cedar!! Almost translucent looking:)
I guess one of the reasons I like them so much is also because it reminds me of the Fluted Buttons we did so many of...
A LOT of which just came from various font "S's" that were then node edited to pleasing curves, and then different radial array numbers/Smooth vs Linear option/and VBit angle.
We mainly used them arrayed from center of the single vector for production speed.

Here's some2014 screenshots Jay

Jay,
Haven't done many bowl shapes this way, and almost always trying for smooth surface like Norman's #2 Bowl.
But here's a similar one I did just taking a vector from the pic of the outside edge of the whole shape, and then Offsetting inwards by eye for a boundary vector for my Trim Vector.
https://forum.vectric.com/viewtopic.php ... hilit=burl

Just a larger polyline with a Smooth Ramp, Radial Arrayed, centered in my cutoff vector by eye, and then trim vectors.

Norman took it a step further with his Heart wood vector, and made a Feature out of less lines and then adding curves to the polyline to make very pleasing shapes!
These 2.5D shapes are Largely dependent on # of lines, And the shape of the bit used!
Hope any of these pics are helpful to you.
Thank you Norman for the Brain Nudge!!
scott

Oh...a smooth cutoff vector will usually yield a better result to start.
Also a vector from the Spiral Gadget with 1 wrap when trimmed variously, May yield some funky Whirlpool shapes(?)
See Norman...Ya got me thinking

[jay pieper]

Thanks to Norman for putting my brain in motion, and it has been spinning since the
original post.
Scott thanks for adding to the thread, I always read your posts, they always add much
detail on the conversation at hand. I have been doing a lot of inlay work lately but had
this type of carving in the back of my mind for some time. I must say thank you to
Norman and you for the nudge forward in my thinking.