24" x 6" 470 pieces of Box Elder
Photo: Arlan Heiser
I know there is no turning involved, however, this process can be used to adorn a bowl either on the top side or bottom side of a bowl. I just might do that one day.
Took a lot of design work to build this thing. Of couse you start with a side view layout. Than a topside one. Came up with 30 segments (seemed like a nice size) started on a 1/4 piece of plywood for the back. Made templates for each layer out of thin wood. This is the easy part sanding on a vertical belt sander 470 petals. Followed by finiishing them up on a small 1/2 x 2" barrel sander on my fordom. Then hand sanded(after they were glued in place. The piece was spray laquered.
