On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:39:23 -0900, Kevin Miller wrote:

On 11/08/2012 04:49 AM, jloomis wrote:
really enjoy seeing your work.
very ethnic and some native american art theme's would like to see how
the block was made in order to create the designs.

Sure - I took some photos along the way. I'll try to get some posted
that shows the process...

So here's a shot that should help visualize what's happening. The
feature ring (i.e., the one w/the scallops) is a 'sandwich' of light wood
between dark. In this case birch and walnut. To get uniform scallops
it's important that they're not offset - I checked that with a pencil.
You can see the mark.

Rather than a pencil line drawn where I did, envision a tool cut from the
outer joint of the light/dark wood intersection. It would just touch the
light wood, and cut away a bunch of the dark. If you cut just a bit
towards the center you expose more light wood near the joints.

If you went straight in, you would end up with light and dark vertical
bands, but because the bowl is cut at an angle the scallop forms. On the
outside you end up cutting off the walnut where the joints are, leaving
light wood at the joints and dark in the middle. On the inside it's the
opposite, hence dark scallops on the outside and light ones on the inside
of the bowl.

Hope that makes sense.

Also hope this posts gets distributed by the news server. Several
haven't. I'm trying out a new newsreader (Pan) too, so hopefully the
photo is actually attached.

S'later...

....Kevin