Enhancement of purchased wood bowl

[garryatpa]

The pattern is from Patrick Spielman and Carl Roehl's book Making Bowls with a Router and Scroll Saw (about 1990).

Garry

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Earlier I mentioned that I had found a wood bowl, 13 inches diameter x about 4 1/2 inches deep, at the local Thrift Store. Below are a couple of pictures of the bowl. One is of the bowl as I purchased it and the second is with the pattern I plan to use to saw a design around the top of the bowl. This...

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Hi Patsy, welcome to scroll sawing. You can do larger projects on a 16” saw. Much of how is covered here already. I started out with a 15” or 16” Delta and now use a 22” Hegner. Here are some of the things I did to saw larger pieces - Drill more than one starting hole, sometimes 3 or 4 depending...

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Thank you for the comments.

Carole - I haven't done anything recently . I must do some more bowls. The OSB (oriented stand board) has fairly large chips that it is made from. There are actually spots where tiny openings go through the sides. I will have to go to Dave's app and do some...

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Thank you all for your comments and encouragement.

will8989 - Yes there are some gorgeous pieces of wood out there of different species at reasonable prices....

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One picture is of 3 different bowls I have sawn a few years ago. The oval bowl from 3/4 inch walnut and is finished with tung oil and the square bowl sawn from 5/8 OSB sub floor is finished with satin waterbased varathane. Both these are designs from Carole Rothman's first bowl book. The third bowl...

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Thanks Rolf. Here is a larger picture . I have had problems getting picture attachments to load. ...

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A while ago a friend requested that I make a sign as a house warming gift they wanted to give. They then went ahead and drew up the design and purchased a wood cutting board to make the sign on. The wood is olive about 18 x 10 inches 3/4 inch thick. My friend wanted the main lettering , "Home Sweet...