Really nice work. Impressive push on the machine limits!!
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@Studioz - Peter, really nice work. The clearances for the spindle and such were soooo tight. Outstanding.
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Thanks Kevin! I watched your video this morning also, really cool design, loved it!
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… and here I am scrimping and saving and reducing my wood projects so there is minimum wasted wood. 
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Yeah, that was my first thought, and it made me wish for a 4th axis on the machine which would allow using a tool like to:
but I’m cheap (or poor, take your pick).
Alternately, why not just use the CNC to cut rings for the glue-up?
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Actually, that’s a really good approach. The rings could be used as stock for coasters.
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Keep yourself warm with those offcuts! 
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Will, to cut the rings for the bowl I would still have to glue up (6) 1" thick x 18" square blanks to cut them out of. Same amount of wasted wood. And then you have to deal with trying to accurately locate them to carve the bowl. Oh and don’t worry the 4 axis is coming, all planned out just waiting on the funds. 
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I’m purty sure the vacuum was full of the “offcuts”.
Turned out to be a great item. I just wouldn’t have started it out that way.
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holy crap the offcuts on this badboy… is there another way?
How did you secure the bowl when you were cutting it free from the blank – I didn’t see any tabs. Also, how did you secure the bowl base when you wear resurfacing the lip to correct the cut?
All double sided tape, both when I cut it free and resurfacing. I used it on the rim of the bowl and on the scrap when I cut it free.
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Very nice work and a beautiful bowl. I have so much to learn …
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Beautiful Job. Just out of curiosity and hopefully not out of line, what was your material cost for this?
No, if you cut the centers out of the squares before gluing them up, you could at least have made one or two smaller bowls (which would have nested nicely) — just would have required working up some suitable fixturing for the round blank.
Whether or no the extra effort would be worth it is an individual decision — I figure if I’m going to cut down the tree some creature might have lived in/which might have captured CO2, I’m obligated to make the most of the material from it (as opposed to turning them into chips which I either have to compost, place around walkways where I don’t want stuff to grow, or out-and-out throw out because not suitable to those usages).
The beauty of using a CAD package like Fusion is it allows you to build assemblies and test out stuff like this. After that you can do exactly as you mention. Might not be worth the time sometimes but like you mentioned I’m cheap too so I would spend the time at my computer to do it. However, what he made was quite impressive. Adding spacers to the machine to manufacture something thicker is kind of intriguing to me. I have a spoil board mounted to the top of my S5P slats and have considered making another aluminum plate to mount to it if I wanted to cut metal. Spacing would definitely help.
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Thank you, around $230 give or take
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