How about a lathe? You will need one of those!

Why not take the 7 hours it takes to glue up a segmented blank and use it to
get really good at using the skew?

It seems to me that you could also use the 7 hours to turn the vessel and
then get about 15 different colors of paint and make the vessel look like it
was segmented - that would be pretty interesting - come to think of it....