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This week I’m following the audience suggestions from my last week and making a bowl out of Patterned Plywood. Since I don’t have a lathe in the shop I found something called a stave bowl. Often made by wood turners, these bowls are made from flat panels that are ideal for patterned plywood. There are a few charts that I found to make this project a TON easier.
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This project came from your comments, so let me know what you want to see next! I'd love suggestions for new projects, patterns, and experiments in plywood. Thanks for watching!!
I think a vase would be really cool!
I would like to see coffee table just like that...
Make an egg out of the dragon scale pattern. Maybe turn it into a lamp
I'm not sure how well it would work but I love one piece solid body electric guitars. Any ideas on how dragonscale could incorporated into something like that?
if you can do the patterns thin enough (so light can shine through) - these would make awesome lamp shades.
That looks so amazing! I'm definitely going to have to try something like this one day. Great video!
Hey Bobby! Thanks man!! 🙌 I would love to see you give it a go
i get the feeling you might do this with a flexible metal
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Truly amazing project, I appreciate your patience. I have made several stave bowls, with mixed results. Thanks for your demo of your glue up process, for me it was very informative. I could babble on, but THANK YOU for this beautiful piece, Chuck
This is absolutely stunningly beautiful and magnificent and spectacular.
Yes make more bowls, this video was fascinating.
Your designs blow us away.
Absolutely stunning. Great job
That looks fantastic, great job!!
Wow!!! This is so amazing. Love watching the process too! Great work! Can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Michael, I love this video. As you flipped the bowl over to start working on the base, i thought this project would be great as a lampshade. you might need thinner plywood, which might cause you some headaches in the glue frames. might be worth a go.
Thanks for making such awesome videos. The second bowl you made with the offcuts looks like a beautiful lampshade.
That might be the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen made out of ply kudos curious what you charge for those? Should be in a museum
You can dye veneer yourself. I've done eighth inch planks. You need a vacuum pump and chamber if you don't already. Then some concoction to color it. I use printer ink, lampblack, linseed and everclear (just a bit of shine or your pump is liable to ignite). Rit dye. Scarlet is 😚 on light woods. Leather dyes. They are concentrated.
Weigh it down, it'll warp. Dry them clamped flat.
Or if you're feeling froggy you can do it in a few minutes with a silver solution of.. Look it up 😉 not trying to get flagged right after spending the time to peck this out. Same as a photography process of converting one silver to an oxide and darkening (developing). Brush it on and then put it in the sun. That's it. Doesn't even need to dry. Soak to get all sides. Works on antler, bone and your skin (this isn't good stuff 💀 not a toy) (till its turned dark and dried in the sun, then its harmless...Idk about it soaking in. Tricky.. Harmless as a relative not an absolute). Permanent. Takes linseed nicely. Commonly used to fill etching lines in powder horns brown.
This would make a great lamp, kind like the one Laura Kampf made.
I admire you patient to create these awsome plywood patterns. Great job
Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
Merry Christmas
The corners coming off was one of those Bob Ross happy accidents that makes the end result better.
Tus diseños son como orgasmos en mi cabeza.
Eres increible. Gracias por regalarnos tantas ideas.
Hey!! You should try making a partern like the hexagon, but make it a regular Heptagon! a heptagons total angle is 900, making it a lot more confusing, in my opinion.
That would be a cool looking lamp shade
That's an AWESOME bowl, ESPECIALLY since it WASN'T created on a lathe!
Holy crap I've never even thought about using a silicon mat as a glue station. That is genius! Just let it dry then peel it off.
That thing looks great, I think one like that would be cool in shou sugi ban style.
What a sweet little dog
Since the scrap bowl doesn’t have a flat surface to stand on, could it instead be used as a lamp shade hanging from the ceiling? Or is it to heavy?
Great dog. ❤
You could have poured a thin layer of black epoxy in the bottom of the bowl to "hide your sins" and make the bottom seamless. may have been easier just my 2 cents.
Didn't think plywood was this pliable 😉
Why would you not glue the pieces together before cutting them down? Save a ton of time!
i was verry confused when u said corban cause thats my name lol
Id like to buy this tye bowl but with random holes in it. As if you forgot several of the v type wedge in each side, like for a fruit bowl. Please let me know, I'm super interested and I work at an interior design company
As frustrating as it must have been, losing those corner pieces on the jig, I actually think it improved the end product. The rim has a nice level of visual complexity with the three "depths;" two peaks, and then a valley where another peak would have been if you'd have kept the corners. That third peak would have been between the heights of the other two, which would have made the rim much more uniform, I think the effect you ended up with is more interesting. This also suits the internal patterning that happened as a result of the join angles; where the pieces meet you get a bunch of variety in the shapes of the "scales," which again, I think adds to the visual interest, but isn't a native feature of the pattern as it's first glued up. Having an exaggerated pattern around the rim matches nicely with these variations in the interior bowl.
I actually was wondering how the bowl would look with some teeth missing but cleaned up. I'm a fan of asymmetry.
I understand you perfectly. And agree that these "imperfections" emphasize the had made quality of the bowl. This is obviously not a mass produced item.
I think a double patterned chess board would be awesome! Like one type of pattern for the white squares and a reverse of that pattern in a different type of plywood for the black squares.
Love your videos!
Ohhh, that would be EPIC.
Heck yes!
SOOOOOOOOOOO cool. Man what a fun project Michael!
As a retired woodworker I'd like to tell you that I have made many scrollsaw bowls w/plywood, but your patterned ply would be an excellent variation. Health prevents me but you have inspired me to advocate anyone to try it.
I wish you good health and I hope you will go back to do what you love.
It’s a shame he did not reply (although I’m sure he’s very busy) to your message, I would have loved for you that he did, I’m sure when I’m better in wood working (I’m still new to this) that I will try this, I will name it the the Almgrumpswal bowl, hope that health is still with you, greetings
That bowl is nothing short of stunning! Turned out amazing and as other people have mentioned, the offcuts bowl would make a lovely lampshade. Well done and love your work, such an inspiration!
Amazing how much depth the dark veneer adds to the pattern, it really does give the appearance of overlapping scales
The one from the offcuts would make an amazing lampshade, for that application, i would put the bottom from the inside, so gravity helps it seat. Beautiful work as always, Michael!
Wow! I thought he was making a lampshade until the end
I thought that was what it was too as soon as i saw it 👍🏼
I agree! That would make a kick ass lamp for a ceilling
I was thinking he could make it into a lid for the larger bowl.
Just a thought. You might want to hand sand (orbital) each panel with a lower grit sand paper (80?) to get some of the glue off, before you plug up that awesome drum sander. That paper is much more expessive to go through with a large amt of glue on the wood. Or just scrap the glue off with a good scraper, if it does not tear the wood up too much. Your project rocks. Can't wait to try it. Just discovered your site. Ditto Maria, down below. Love the fact that you show the 'fails' you keep in. Nice to know, I'm not the only one that screws up a project just when you think you are on a roll.
As soon as I saw the first cut on the jig I was thinking “hmm, I wonder if the scrap pieces would add up to another bowl”
Also, I would have made the spare panels, like you did, but then I’d FORGET that they were spares and try to glue 14 pieces together instead of 12 and wonder why nothing fits. 🤣
No se si tu lo sepas hermano pero realmente eres un artista increíble y me inspiras a ser mejor!!!
Absolutely stunning! LOVED the scraps bowl as well, I think this shape would look amazing as hanging lampshades, like 3 or 4 on top of a dining table or 2 as night stands would be great!
That’s it. I’m definitely going as “patterned plywood” next Halloween.
Also, thank you for not doing an epoxy pour on the bottom.
That's just awesome. I love it. The "free" one is really cool too. It would make a great lamp shade it a hanging light.
This would make a pretty sweet lamp shade that would look great in your new home office. Awesome work as always. It’s so satisfying to watch a sheet of plywood turn into something this beautiful
was thinking the same!
Absolutely stunning! One of the most creative and beautiful pieces I've seen in a while. Keep on crushing it man! 👊🏻
The wedges dont have to be wedge shaped. They can be foursided, rectangular. Cut the tip off so you have a side were you only need to give em a small tap before they loose up
Great project, this will look stunning as a lamp shade with a steeper angle.
Thought exactly the same thing :D
Thank you for including and admitting to your mistakes and not just leaving them on the metaphorical cutting room floor. As a fellow maker who gets increasingly frustrated whenever I mess things up, it was cathartic, encouraging and inspiring to see you begin again.
The end result is incredible. I'm not sure I would have the patience (and I definitely don't have the skills or equipment) but you'd would be a stunning piece in any home!
Hi, Michael. This was in my recommendations and was great to watch.
Since you asked for project ideas, I think patterned plywood with veneers for contrast would make a great top for a guitar body. Maybe even a fingerboard, but I don't know how it would hold up to being radiused and slotted for frets. Thanks for sharing your work. 😊
Beautiful. Looks like a lampshade. Just needs a fancy bulb
As you cut the glue up sticks into pieces on the bandsaw (8:46) you will see your thrust bearing is to far behind the blade, allowing the blade to flex behind the force of pushing your work through. With the guide bearings as close to the work table as they are you shouldn’t have any flex at all. Just my observation/opinion hoping to help.
Loved the video. One question, It looks like you already have a large drum sander in the corner of your shop....why did you buy another one?
"Lift with your knees not your back."
Michael, this turned out awesome!
Absolutely beautiful. I was hoping u would do an epoxy bottom or something but the way u finished it was amazing. One day I will build my skill level so I can replicate it. Amazing work, I really love your channel
Im going to like the video just because of the complicated name of the bowl.
My suggestion is to remove the squarespace ads in your video. Thank you.
Buy a lathe, Mike. Go down the rabbit hole. Join us, Mike. Join us.
Incredible build well done!!
Looks amazing, one of my favorite projects of yours. You could make the alpine/dragon scale pop even more if you stained half of your cuts a tiny bit darker and kept all the darker ones on one consistent side (either the left or right side of the "scale"). It would make it look 3D/shaded!
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Fascinating!
Also a really good video! Love the dragonscale pattern! If you are gonna reuse the wedges for ”clamping” you can drill a hole in the big end and put a dowel for easy hammer-action😉👍🏻 If there was enough offcuts to make a bottompiece from the same pattern as the bowl, that would have looked sweet i recon.
That’s a great idea!! Thanks 🙌
You’re awesome 🙌🏻
these would make such cool lampshades, especially with the teeny gaps/pinholes showing through!! i could see playing around with the gaps placement could make a cool shadow lamp!!
could work as a pendant lamp or sconces even!
Very cool! The other bowl made from the cut pieces almost looks like it could serve as a lid of sorts, sitting inside the larger bowl.
Well done, great example of holding “every“ facet to tight tolerances . Path to perfection is narrow and strenuous. Often pursued, seldom attained. What you called a “ little luck “ was your reward for excellence.
I squealed when you squealed.
You took a “ kit type “ project and elevated it to fine art. Museum level perfection.
Now take a well deserved bow and get back to work. Two in a row??
Your video skills made this adventure great for the rest of us. Thank you…jb…👏👏👏
Absolutely beautiful! You've got me wanting to give pattern plywood a try now.
Absolutely Genius Michael, a real beauty! Masterpiece by a true Master himself 👍🏼 where do I sign up to purchase this Marvel? 👍🏼
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FAN FREEKIN' TASTIC ! My favorite by far. You have to get a lathe , If you turned the inside only of that second bowl it would be epic !
Holy WHATTHEWHAAAAAAT!!!!
This project is AMAZING! I stumbled onto your site and really enjoy watching your process of work from start to finish. The detail you put into each piece of art (it is art!) Astounds me.
GREAT JOB Mike!
My first time on your channel, but for sure not the last. Though I have no experience in working with wood, I am very impressed with your work here and I whish I had the time, ressources and talent to do stuff like this.
Keep it up :)
Amazing! The corners chipping off ending up giving the bowl edge a beautiful finished look. Wonderful work, well done... and the bonus bowl for little extra work. Superb.
That's pretty damn epic. But honestly, make whatever you want. I'm here for the humility and grace with which you seem to approach all your projects.
Such a cool design!! That second bowl looks more like a lamp shape 🤔
Humbling experience to watch talented people not have all the answers but find a way to move their projects forward. Great woodworking!
I love Winston. He’s such a cute boy! Love this new venture in mixing veneers. Looks even better and opens many more doors. I almost want to see how this would look with two layers of the solid veneer color. :)
Love it. And sure love the work process and flow you got going on. The 'missing tips actually make the piece more interesting.
Here's a few tips I think may work:
#1. Put down old newspaper down in your glue up jig. Should stay flat and stick to the wax. Helps the glue to dry and *actually* does not stick to the melamine. As you use the sander that paper will be gone in one pass.
#2 The wedges don't need to be that sharp. Just cut the tips and you have room to tap them out of the jig.
#3 Next time you glue a bottom to a bowl under those angles? Supporting the walls would be nice. I half expected some points exploding of off the piece due to that angular force. Just a piece of thin memory foam would reduce that force. But obviously the glue job was excellent.
Such a great project and the bowl is amazing! The drum sander is a great investment! Henry Ford said “If you need a machine and don’t buy it, you pay for it without getting it” So enjoy that drum sander!! Really enjoy the pattern plywood projects. I wonder if it’s possible to do Celtic knot or arabesques patterns….. Again great video and please keep sharing!
A metallic looking veneer could end up looking really cool with the "dragon scale". Or maybe even some fiery colors! 🐉
Simply stunning. A thing this beautiful requires a tile. I feel that the Japanese '自身の反省を考えているアルパイン' (Jishin no hansei o kangaete iru Arupain) - 'Alpine contemplating its own reflection' would be appropriate. The second bowl would make an gorgeous pendant lamp.
Omg!!!😍🤤🤤🤤🥰
Tell future hubby, I dont want a wedding ring...I want a 12 sided, dragon scale, patterned plywood, stave bowl! Lol but serious 🤣🧐🤭
This is SO beautiful! I made the patterned plywood tea box from your plans and now I’m trying to reverse engineer this without plans 🤪 or are there plans to make my life easier? Or maybe even just the size of the individual panels? Pretty please? 😅
My Grampa made many works of Lathe-turned segmented Plywood. Over the years he earned a whole PILE of Blue Ribbons at the
Oregon State Fair . . Archie Wilkinson. You can see some of his work in the Oregon State Capitol Bldg. (Salem, OR) where he produced
many of the stairways, window casing, mouldings etc. I inherited some of his lathed art works!
This stuff would make awesome flooring panels.
If you use the halfing technic you will get those little pieces with fewer cuts which makes it less tedious. There is a simple formula whee you take a multiple of the size that you want to cut. You put them all on the band saw and Half them the number of times until you get to the end size. For example, you want pieces with 2 inches, so you prepare 1 sticks with 64 inches and you cut it 64/ 2^5 times because 2^6= 64 and 2^5 is 32 ergo 64/32=2, so you always have it n-1 times the base is your multiple of the single element that you want to have. So back to the example you would get with every 64 inches tick 32 pieces with only halfing it 5 times. So if you half 5 times 8 sticks, you get 265 pieces with only 5 cuts. Another example for pieces that are not base two. 3.5*2^5 = 112 if you half that 5 times you get back your 3.5 pieces. This last formula you can use for every positive number that you need. So Pal work smart not hard
Amazing work buddy.
Any chance you could do a video recapping the equipment you're using? (Maybe also the great that failed?) Mainly, specialized gear for accurate cutting like the angle finders, type saws etc... Thx
I could be wrong, but wasn't your 60° cut only 30° off? Could you not set the extra 15° and run the pieces through again? Not trying to be a troll, your work is impeccable, I just know I sometimes overlook things when I get frustrated
WOW!!! Just mind blowing - you have to pleased with that?? So inspirational - thank you. It's beautiful... surely some rich muppet in a loft in Manhattan will pay 3k for that?
Dear Michael, at one moment I thought of a name change for your project to “Painter’s tape held together with plywood”. In the end, turned out brilliantly. Cheers.
Amazing! I am a Carpenter Trainee second Year (Auszubildender Tischler 2. Lehrjahr) and i can´t wait to earn enough Money, to have my own Workshop to build all the fun Things that regular Customers would most likely never order.
Hey dude, super cool stuff. Just a thought tho. Wouldn't it have been faster and easier to glue your 1 foot 45'd peices together in the pattern THEN slice into 1/2" panels? Rather than cutting and glueing 520 individual mini chevrons together in the 3 bay wedge clamp thingy?
Hi Michael, you do wonderful work. Thanks for the interesting videos.
I am a carpenter from Switzerland. I've been working with the tablesaw for 40 years and still have all 10 fingers, because I use a protective cover over each moving blade.
So, please protect yourself and use a protective cover over every rotating saw.
Kind regards Pascal.
man! such an epic project..AGAIN!! what a wonderful result...and i love that you just went out and came back with a drum sander! ...youre gonna need a bigger shop! :)
Anybody in the Midwest US have a good source for Baltic Birch/ApplePly? The cheapest I'm finding is $150 for a 3/4"x4'x8' sheet
Can you make a chest like this? thank you amazing work...I also have a program that will get your channel to over 100k + different people in the USA...and help kids, animals and elderly. Jeff
I have always loved plywood so I don't get those who thumb their nose at it as an inferior product compared to 'real wood' (solid wood).
Finding your channel, and others like Chris Solomane, has been a boon and given so much inspiration. So, thank you so much!
Watching you make this stunning bowl reminded me of an experience I had in the late 90s making many sided bowls from curved plywood or 'shells' that are like a tube of ply cut in half lengthways and came in a variety of diameters from 12in to 66in.
So that's a stave bowl made not from flat wood, but from curved wood. Imagine you've quartered an orange and then cut it in half horizontally. Now peel it, and you have 8 pieces of orange peel semi curved and roughly triangular. And it's wood, not malleable flexible orange peel lol That's what I wanted to make bowls from.
With zero research (no RUclips back then or much data online at all) or advanced mathematical skill, I soon realised after fails that to burn a vertical line in a shell (the company I worked for had a CNC laser and learning CAD was also my first real exposure to computers so all cuts, or burns, were done 90° to the wood surface) and to get a vertical line on a 3D surface meant creating the correct sized (depending on diameter of the wood and number of sides wanted) 2D eclipse for the laser to burn.
After experimenting on paper with dimensions for 4, 6, 8 and 10 sided bowls in the 12in and 16in shells I saw a pattern with the maths. I cannot remember exactly what they are now because it was so long ago but, that by using some constants and the variables of sides (parts of 360°) and diameter (size of the shell used) there was an equation that told me how tall to make the eclipse. The height of the eclipse, which was taller than the wood used to create the right curve, starts and ends outside the physical area of wood, and this height determined the correct curve to fit the diameter of the wood and the number of sides I wanted. This was all hand drawn math as I was just roughing out ideas and once I realised this was an actual formula, rudimentary as it was, I felt like bloody Einstein haha
I remember throwing out all sorts of numbers and checking the answer against a calculator and was elated to see it all matched.
I'll never forget that experience💥💥🤓
And the bowls were pretty cool too 😂👌
A terrific project and a great video. I've been very interested in working with plywood ever since I saw my first edge-cut plywood table. I think plywood has tons of creative uses. Love the bowl! I can see a lampshade, both hanging (down) and torchiere (up) versions. Also, if you resin coat it, you have a sink! Great choice of colors too. I'd love to have a lampshade like this on my brass floor lamp. It would be awesome. Thanks so much for sharing your project and experience.
That's a mighty nice bowl. You clearly have the sense of a good artist, and some nice machines, as well. Can people bid on your finished projects for purchase (using 'guaranteed money' in a digital escrow account)? Curious because I wonder if promoted projects like this can be 'bid up' in price (a faster market-building mechanism than iterated sales and its slower adjustment of prices).
RUclips algorithms got another piece of gold in front of my eyes at 4am; forcing me to immediately subscribe.can’t wait to see what future masterpieces come out of your imagination and creativity:)⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
make a vase or an urn with lid
"cause that's what you asked for"
*smashes like button*
Pattern plywood synth holders? (Korg Volca, NTS-1, etc.)