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Default How to 'contemporize' small bowls and boxes?

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Mahogany is bland but not unattractive. It turns easily and takes
vinegar-iron ebonizing well. It's much too good to waste, but the 2X6
size limits bowl design, at least for me.


Working within limits can be a good design experience, though you could
also glue some of these up to make bigger blocks (bothering or not
bothering with segmenting, layers of veneer to bring out the segments
and add design interest, etc, yadda, yadda.

I have what _I_ think is a pleasing design that does not quite fit in
these limits (just over 6, just about 2-1/4) - slightly closed-top,
tapering wall thickness, smooth. I've posted a scan of a sectioned one
that died while being roughed (from a log, so it has a big tenon that
would not even come close to fitting in your board, but that would have
been cut off if the one in question had lived). I've retouched the top
to approximate the wall I think I was going for - the bottom shows the
wall of this one as it is.

http://www.sover.net/~lsmith/BowlSection.jpg

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