How to make a bowl from a flat plank

Step 3: Cutting down the middle

Pretty straight forward, just cut straight down you middle line, you can use any saw you want for this but remember if the blade is to thick your bowl wont be as round.

At this point Id like to mention this method is not ideal when making a bowl like this, the best way would be to cut a board in half before drawing any lines a make a nice dovetail or other joint the hold the two boards together. This way there a much stronger joint holding the rings together, however I do not have the means to make a dovetail joint so I just butt jointed the rings together.

Anyway, I chose to use the jigsaw to make this cut because of the very thin blade, the only problem doing this is you have to be careful to cut a straight line, which is harder on the jigsaw.

Comments

[peach_fart]

thats a scroll saw not a jigsaw. a jigsaw is the hand held saw with the blade that goes in and out

[freakyqwerty]

Looks like a hegna saw(or how ever you spell it) that we have in my d.t class at school