Here are a few examples of finished nested bowl sets. I’ve written about coring bowl blanks before; minimizes waste, utilizes as much of the wood as possible. I took me awhile to get comfortable with my coring tools, the McNaughton system, but now I core almost every piece on the lathe. I usually get 3-5 bowls from most wood blanks. I have been turning Madrona quite a bit recently and I have over 125 bowls drying in the shop. I’ve really come to love working with this unique Pacific Coast wood. Here is a Madrona bowl set, and a Maple Burl Bowl, some Maple platters and a previously posted rough cored blanks set.
While I’m coring almost every bowl blank, I don’t always pair the bowls together in nested sets. Sometimes the shape of the bowls change, or imperfections in the wood predicate a different kind of bowl.
It is great to be able to maximize my output from beautiful wood. The Maple Burl from Burton is absolutely beautiful. A friend gave me a piece of walnut and I cut three bowls from the small piece. I recently cut some other small bowls from Japanese Maple that had died. Small bowl blanks, but really lovely wood as well.
All Good Wishes
Ric
