Purple heart and walnut bowl

[Dalboy]

Turning a purple heart bowl I found a split starting to form. So turned it to my advantage by inserting a walnut strip through the centre.

Comments welcome

 

[Paul.J]

That looks very nice Dal
The two woods do go well together surprisingly :shock:
Very nicely finished.
What glue did you use to join them :?:

 

[stevebuk]

now that i like very much, i think the contrast between the two is spot on, love it.

 

[Doug B]

Great save Derek,

What finish have you used?

 

[DaveL]

Very nice.
Good rescue, the woods go together really well and I like the thin edge.

 

[gasmansteve]

Like it Derek. Is this the start of some segmented turning ??
I think 3 bits can be called segmented :lol:
Steve

 

[boysie39]

Great save Derek have four or five bowl forms which I made rollix of and was wondering what I could do with them. May borrow your idea if thats ok and probley make a total cock up of them .
As someone else asked what glue did yo use super job. REgards Boysie

 

[Jenx]

Another thumbs up here too Dalboy ... that looks really good !

Great save too, and the end result looks like a 'deliberate from the get-go' .... its great !

 

[Bodrighy]

This bowl epitomises my signature. Great save....probably better than your original would have been. :lol:

Pete

 

[mikec]

Well saved !!

The two woods go together very well and the execution is good.

Mike C

 

[mark sanger]

Great save.

It works really well.

 

[loz]

Oh very nice !

Great contrast of woods. Very thin at the edge. Can't see the foot due to shadow, got a base shot ??

Loz

 

[Oakbear]

Excellent rescue job, i reckon that's made it whereas just purpleheart might have been a bit plain.

I wish my joinery was a neat as that though!

 

[Dalboy]

Thanks for all the comments everyone

The glue I used was Polyurethane.

I took the original bowl and cut a piece out about 1" wide so as to get rid of the split section (I had only turned the outside at this stage) .

Then I put the two halves through my surface planer prepared the walnut using table saw and planers to get a piece 1" wide to replace the cut out section.

Let glue set over night centred piece in chuck and turned the outside again to true back up

This would work even if the split was to one side of the bowl

Hmm may even try that out :roll:

 

[ste_5150]

...turned it to my advantage...

Doh.... :lol: . Did no-one else notice the pun??

That's a really good save and makes much better use of the purpleheart, I think. Introduces a pleasing contrast - I really like it!