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Step 4That's it!
Here are some more pictures, and some random thoughts about the bowl.
The finished piece is about 33 cm (13 inches) across and 10 cm (4 inches) high. It is made of 20 layers of bamboo, each 5.5 mm (0.22 inches) thick.
I was inspired by some other "minimal waste" bowls available on Ponoko. Just search Ponoko for the word "bowl" and you'll see them.
Here is the "trick" that turns this flat sheet of bamboo into a three-dimensional bowl. The wood is cut into 20 concentric rings. But the rings are not perfectly round (this becomes more obvious as the pieces get smaller). The dimensions are cleverly staggered so that the 6-to-12-o'clock diameter of each piece matches the 3-to-9-o'clock diameter of the next bigger piece. Therefore, when you take them apart and rotate every other piece by a quarter-turn, the left-to-right span of each one overlaps with the top-to-bottom span of the one underneath, so they stack instead of nesting.
The first thing I drew was the profile. I wanted it to have a nice shape.
Isn't it funny that we have this idea of a "bowl" that doesn't have to hold liquid?
The laser *burns* its way through the bamboo. I was smelling the char the whole time I was putting the prototype together. My fingers got dark with carbon.
The burning also creates a two-tone color effect, where all the vertical surfaces of the bowl become coal-dark, while the horizontal surfaces remain bamboo-pale. I did not anticipate this, but I like it very much.
Tying it all together in 40 places is tedious. If the piece went into production I would want to come up with a better method - some kind of rivet, perhaps.
The finished piece is about 33 cm (13 inches) across and 10 cm (4 inches) high. It is made of 20 layers of bamboo, each 5.5 mm (0.22 inches) thick.
I was inspired by some other "minimal waste" bowls available on Ponoko. Just search Ponoko for the word "bowl" and you'll see them.
Here is the "trick" that turns this flat sheet of bamboo into a three-dimensional bowl. The wood is cut into 20 concentric rings. But the rings are not perfectly round (this becomes more obvious as the pieces get smaller). The dimensions are cleverly staggered so that the 6-to-12-o'clock diameter of each piece matches the 3-to-9-o'clock diameter of the next bigger piece. Therefore, when you take them apart and rotate every other piece by a quarter-turn, the left-to-right span of each one overlaps with the top-to-bottom span of the one underneath, so they stack instead of nesting.
The first thing I drew was the profile. I wanted it to have a nice shape.
Isn't it funny that we have this idea of a "bowl" that doesn't have to hold liquid?
The laser *burns* its way through the bamboo. I was smelling the char the whole time I was putting the prototype together. My fingers got dark with carbon.
The burning also creates a two-tone color effect, where all the vertical surfaces of the bowl become coal-dark, while the horizontal surfaces remain bamboo-pale. I did not anticipate this, but I like it very much.
Tying it all together in 40 places is tedious. If the piece went into production I would want to come up with a better method - some kind of rivet, perhaps.
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