Thanks for sharing your experience with bowl! 👍🏻 I have two I need to get done and this video was a big help! Thanks!

You did amazing work on this project 👍👍

Try a segmented base with a floating solid insert to form the bottom. - Make your first ring with the OD where you want it and the ID 2" smaller. This gives you a ring with a 1" wall and flatten the bottom side as usual. - Grab that ring in your Cole jaws with a 1/4" plywood sacrificial layer under it then turn the ID round. - Turn a 1/2" dado in the ID to about 1/8" less than the ring thickness. - Turn a solid piece of wood (I use something contrasting) round to an OD slightly smaller than the OD of the 1st ring dado and slightly thicker than the depth of the dado. - Glue the solid plug into the ring with only two spots of glue in line with the grain of the plug. As the plug shrinks and swells with weather, the glue wont crack and the bowl won't split. The swelling of the plug will be absorbed into that small gap between the plug and the ring. - Last, flatten the top as usual. This gives you a foot on your base, a flat place to sign it, material on the inside to round out the bottom, and no hole at the middle of the base where segments don't quite meet. Complete the piece as usual.

Looking good!

Around 20minutes: a comment on Cole jaws. Some time ago, I tried what you did and didn't like the grip I got with the rubber fingers. I had some flat head screws that fit the jaws and tried just the screws with no rubber. The edges of the screws bit into the OD of the ring like fingernails and held the ring VERY well. The slight dimples left by the screw heads didn't matter because they got turned away a little later. Try it. You might like it.

Paddlepop sticks cut in half work great for splitting the segments in half :)

The points you were trying to make about the segmented construction were good. Your actual construction would be vastly improved if you would get a sharp saw blade. Also slow the cuts down. That will help too. Be sure to sand all the fuzzies on the segments. They will go together better. Put your camera on a tripod. The movement when you are talking to the camera is driving me nuts. And back away from the camera a bit. Good luck in working out the bottom of your bowls. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

Use Titebond 2 instead of 3. It has less open time so it tacks up quicker and helps prevent all the slipping and misalignment. I can't imagine you need the waterproof benefits of TB3.

Nice looking bowls so far! You could have just put in a long piece and used it as a tenon. Then you would not have to worry about turning it away.

What you are doing here is great but I just wanted to pass on a few things I have learned. I have been making segmented bowls and vases for years now and had the same issue when I started with the bottoms not meeting up correctly. The issue is the angle that the segments are cut to. If a ring has 8 or 12 pieces and the angle is off just a bit, you can still make them come together with a bit of sanding and some glue but the more segments per row will compound the amount of angle you are off to the point that all the sanding you do will never make it look good or fit. I ended up making a few table sleds at different angles and working with tons of scrap I moved the angle guide boards a hairs breath at a time to get the angle just right to get the bottom to meet. Try it next time with a small amount of segments per row then double the amount, then adjust the guide board a hair one way and then the other…..you will be surprised just how much that little bit of movement can make.

This has popped up many times. With a properly set up jig you should never have to sand the joint. And with a good blade and a slow cut at the end you should have nice tight joints. Just wanted to say that it can be done. Not saying anything against what you have done.

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