This next bowl is done in a segmented glue up. It is made up of 49 pieces of wood cut precisely to size and glued together to form rings. There are two layers of segmented rings (24 pieces each) glued together and then glued to the base. The base is solid purpleheart wood and the rings are alternating maple and purpleheart.

The first three pictures show the glue up before it has been turned and the last three pictures show the finished bowl. It has 5 coats of a clear water base urethane finish.
This was made for Betty's Mum for Christmas 2004.

This little slide show gives an idea of the steps in the construction of a segmented turning.

This next item is a little candy dish measuring 5-1/2" dia x 2-7/8" high. It is also made using the segmented method and contains 121 pieces of wood. The different varieties used in this dish are: Maple (Canada) Purpleheart (Brazil) Oak (Canada) and Ebony (Africa). It is finished with 5 coats of clear water based urethane.