Stave bowl construction. For those of you out there that have done stave construction can you tell me how in the world you do your glue ups. In this article ill describe how to design and build a tapered stave bowl. I had gaps in my joints and it is clear the joints were weak. Now think of various combinations of woods that could be used in a bowl the number of staves the choice of height and width of the finished bowl and whether to add a lid or leave the vessel open the possibilities are endless.
Part 1 tapered staves are cut from flat stock using a jig then glued together to form a conical bowl blank for later turning on a lathe. Turned wooden stave bowls are teds specialty. How long or wide should i make the pieces. Think of a barrel which is basically a cylinder formed from vertical pieces of wood called staves.
I want to make a zig zag pattern using stave construction. Quick look a a prototype staved vase i made. The example project is based upon the bowl shown in the opening photo but i have included everything you need to make a project of your own design. If you would like to improve or make modifications to this utility you can fork the project on github.
Rpe this may be too big of a question. Hard maple textured norwegian style salad bowl using robert sorby. What miter angle or bevel do i need. A guide to stave construction for woodworking and.
I want to make a segmented bowl with a combination of stave and normal segment rings. Staved or segmented construction figures in a lot of projects from ornamental bowl turnings to porch pillars. Of rotation anywhere along a stave ring will equal 3600. Loyd johnson calls it a first generation pattern.
But to accomplish this the bevel angle and miter angle must be modified to make the ends of the stave different widths. Blueprints learn woodworking woodworking projects lathe projects wood turning projects wood projects segmented turning bowl turning wood vase. Making of a segmented vase i made it at techshop. Thus an 8 stave construction will be made up of 8 staves each having cut angles of 225 0 on each edge in that perpendicular plane.
The center stave construction will be the feature ring. Stave calculator is a free and open source utility for calculating the dimensions angles and costs associated with the production of stave drums. A question we often hear is. Worlds most complete small cabin plans video construction course.
Finding those answers is relatively easy. I attempted a bowl of this type this week and the result are below. Soon i moved on to bowl shaped designs which require tapered staves that form a conical blank figure 1. Heres how to do the math.