Basket weave bowl from plywood

in my last video where I made this sled for cutting wood turning segments I showed this bowl and it got a lot of comments why don't you see how I made it so I thought hey it'd be fun to make another one so that's what I'm doing today but actually that would be super boring so I'm going to make it a little bit different you can see here I tried to make a basket weave pattern but being only two tires high it doesn't look quite right so on the ball I'm going to make today I'm going to go four layers high and instead of these vertical strips being actually vertical they're going to be a 20 degree angle just for something a little different I actually forgot to mention in the sled video that this sled works on both sides of the plate I need a stop box so that I can get all the segments the right length so I'm going to use this 20-pound chunk of Steel as my stock up I like to do it this way just because the steel is easy and precise and the fence is there just to keep it from getting shoved away the segment's cut off the front of the fence and the segments cut off the back of the fence are beveled in opposite directions so they can't be used in the same bolt the only practical way to use these is to make two separate bolts keeping them in order and give the correct orientation is important because we need to have continuous grain all the way around the bolt see if there's more a basket weave there would be a continuous strip of wood all the way around so it's important that this looks like a continuous strip even though it's not and as you can see it doesn't make any difference that these are beveled they still make a perfect rim and now I can just simply spread these apart and put these pieces in between and there you can see the beginning of my basket weave pattern gluing this up is going to be quite a pain because I can't just put a band around it and squeeze it or all the segments will go so I'm just going to do each joint one at a time by hand my first thought was to just work my way around but the problem is with these angled outsides things are kind of skewed and there's nothing to line up to so chances are by the time I get all the way around I'm going to have some error as you can see here I don't want to end up with that problem when all these joints are glued so I taped all the segments together front and back and I've made sure that they're where I want them and now I'm going to take off the tape from two opposing joints and then I can put these segments in those two joints by doing these across from each other letting these dry and then doing a couple more and a couple more hopefully when I'm all done I don't end up with any errors about a minute or two of holding this will be very very strong now just don't touch that for a while well I got one ring done and I have three more to go you already saw how I did it so I think I'm just gonna turn off the camera and and they're all done I need to flatten these out so I can glue them together so I'm going to use my drum sander for that supposedly 36 grit doesn't work very well in a drum sander [Music] I think that might be why they say 36 grits not a good idea but it did a pretty good job of taking down the excess of this so I sanded all these up to 80 grit so they're smooth enough to glue and they're nice and flat I'm just hot gluing some little pieces onto here and that'll keep the alignment right when I go to glue it up the wood glue is going to try to make them slip around you all right all done now by itself this basket-weave would look kind of unfinished I'm going to cap off the top and bottom with a walnut ring I have a method for making the grain line up perfectly all the way around the ring if you imagine this being the board and I've cut all these segments out if I wrap this up the grain lines up perfectly all the way around until here and then we have about a quarter inch error so this is not the way to do it the walnut that I'm using is twice as thick as I need the ring to be that's important and you'll see why in a little bit I cut it to the width that I want the ring to be so that'll go just like that take note of how I'm cutting these I'm only cutting full segments off the front of the sled off the back I'm just cutting off enough to make the angle right so now these will be able to wrap up like so and the grain will line up perfectly right now I'm only making six of these and I will turn them into twelve and now I just need to glue up the half ring so I'll just put these all in order and tape them together now the important thing is that these two surfaces will be flat relative to each other so I'm just applying as much force as I need to make these two joints streaked in line with each other as I showed earlier it's easy to make a partial ring with perfect view of night grain but where the two ends meet that's where your problem is but if we mirror that now we have perfectly aligned grain all the way around mirroring is basically book matching so I'm going to book match this piece I don't want to apply too much force or it could break the ring now I'm just going to sand this all down and see how well the grain lines up so from a distance this looks pretty good but if you look up close you'll see that I made a mistake in the wood that I used the grain is angled across the end so then when I took the bandsaw and cut a curve out of there that made that grained misalign because some of the material was removed I really should have used a piece of wood with vertical grain so that even though I took out that bandsaw curve the grain would still line up so I'm doing the same thing for the bottom except this time since the segment's all come to a point the keepers and offcuts are exactly the same so that means I can make two separate rings out of the one board [Music] alright this will be the final glue up these two plywood disks are just for mounting it on the lathe now I'm really wishing that I had blew down some tabs to hold these in place like I did for the other rings I made this really heavy-duty faceplate I think that should help to reduce chatter on Bowl turnings like this ready to turn it I wanted this bowl to be as big as would fit on the lathe but it looks like I'm actually gonna have to do a little bit of sanding there so this is definitely the max for this late but I think it's going to work [Music] I've got the outside rough turned so it's round and I'm going to go ahead and move to turning the inside I don't want to get this too thin before I rough turn the inside because I might get some catches in there I think a battle the outside now I just need to turn the inside so that I have a consistent wall thickness I made this little tool for a measuring wall thickness it's just a piece of plywood there's a screw right here straight across from a dial indicator so it's a very simple thickness gauge so right there were at about 5/8 right there it's 3/4 right there we're up to seven eight I'm going to try to go to about 3/8 inch well the turning is all done so now I just have a ton of sanding to do this play would really benefit from being sanded in every possible direction the only way to really get it smooth otherwise you always end up with a little bit of as well sandpaper feel I don't have a way to reach up the bolt so I can't turn it around and finish the bottom that's actually why I put two pieces of plywood on here to give me enough thickness that I can get in there with a parting tool and start to create a slight concave in the bottom so that way you'll sit on just a rim and then after I start creating that concave I'll go ahead and part it off completely and finish the concave by hand after it's off the lathe in order to get a to arrest that reaches I had to grab me a broken 1 inch bolt and a couple scraps of Steel and weld them together [Music] so right there you can see the concave and right there that's the rim that's going to sit on the table so I've cut pretty much as far as I can with this and now I'm just going to take a saw and break it off so now I just have the rest of this tree move well that was a lot of work to finish it that way but I have to say for not rechecking it that actually work really well time for some finish I'm using this clock combs beeswax solid bowl finish I'm not sure if this is the ideal finish for the job but it's made by a small family-run business in British Columbia and that's the kind of businesses I like to support [Music] you

Channel: Jer Schmidt

Views: 532,054

Rating: 4.9262004 out of 5

Keywords: woodturning, bowl, basket weave, plywood, baltic birch, woven, lathe, turning, turned, wood, walnut, segmented, grain, table saw sled, wedgie sled, weave, jer's woodshop, jers, workshop, jeremy schmidt, sanding, woodworking, wooden, salad bowl, clapham's

Id: t8UMvzWm0Kw

Length: 14min 39sec (879 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 26 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/nvolker]

I liked this guy's sense of humor.

[u/5ab5]

What an absolute pro. Really amazed at the number of factors that are to be taken care of before doing anything.

[u/Mudbrrk]

Excellent video. He had me laughing out loud at the bowl break off from the lathe.

[u/BarleyHopsWater]

It was a good 15 minute post, surprised how well the ply came out and damn, that kids workshop is clean!

[u/bitterberries]

Totally great stuff.. Really satisfying watching all the little pieces coming off with the chisel

[u/Hurleygirly]

That was really good to watch, thanks for posting!