"jtpryan" wrote in message
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I just made a bowl from bloodwood and maple. I took a piece of maple and glued it to
the block of bloodwood and then turned it, giving the bowl a maple lip.

While this worked fine and Maple is (relatively) cheap, to do it with more expensive
woods seems like a waste. For example I have a lot of black cherry from a tree I
felled and thought it would be nice to make a bowl with a black or dark brown lip,
like walnut or ebony. But I can't see taking a piece of ebony and basically wasting
90% of it.

So, my thought was how could I cut a groove around the outside and fill it with a
nice contrasting color to jazz it up a bit? Does anybody have a technique for this?

Jim

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I'm new to turning, altho I've been doing woodworking for over 40 years,
and have never tried this but think it should work. Carve put a groove on the
outside of your bowl and add some inlay banding. Normally the groove is
routed out on flat surfaces. The banding is quite thin, ~1/20", and should bend
easily around a bowl as long as the diameter isn't real small.

Inlay stringing could be added anywhere on the bowl as it will bend in all
directions.

This site sells both type of inlays. http://www.inlaybanding.com/stringing.html
Art