The segmented bowls on this page are made by carefully gluing small pieces of dry wood to form rings that have between 12 and 48 segments. The rings are then stacked to form the bowl blank that is used to make the bowl. We use a mixture of domestic and exotic hardwoods with different colors.
The most common method for making segmented bowls is to use radial segments. A line drawn between adjacent segments will intersect in the center of the bowl. Recently, we have made several bowls using tangential segments, where the lines between adjacent segments define the inner diameter of the ring.
Currently available segmented bowls
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- Side view of a closed form bowl with 24 tangential segments per ring. The bolw is made of maple, boire, black walnut and karalox (11.5″ x 5.25″, $250)
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- Top-view of the closed form bowl
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- Black walnut, maple, padauk, yellowheart, cherry and pernambuco (1056 segments, 13.5″ x 9″, $350)
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- Top view of black walnut, maple, padauk, yellowheart, cherry and pernambuco bowl
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- Raspberry swirl. This padauk and maple bowl has 16 tangential segments per ring. (16″ x 5.5″, $250)
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- Top view of raspberry swirl bowl
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- Cherry and maple bowl made with tangential segments (12″ x 4.5″, $150)
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- Spalted maple, maple and black walnut (12.75″ x 6.5″, $200)
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- Diamond bowl made from maple, black walnut, purpleheart, padauk and yellowheart (14.5″x 7″, $300)
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- Open segmented bowl made from maple, purpleheart, padauk and black walnut (9.25″ x 4.75, $150)”
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- Bloodwood, padauk, maple and black walnut (13″ x 4.75″, $250)
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- Side biew of caramel-mocha swirl. Black walnut and cherry bowl has 12 tangential segments per ring (12″ x 5.25″, $250)
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- Top view of caramel-mocha swirl.
Selected bowls that are no longer available
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- Black walnut and ambrosia maple (13.5 x 9.5)
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- Segmented maple, spalted maple, birch and wenge bowl (12″X6.5)
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- Apple salad bowl with segmented rings of mahogony, black walnut and maple (16.5″ x 7″)
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- Segmented fiddleback maple closed form with ziricote feature ring (8.5″ diameter, 6.5″ tall)
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- Closeup of ziricote feature ring from the previous bowl
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- Tornado bowl of padauk, maple and black walnut (14″ x 8.5″)
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- Desert Sunrise (Spalted maple, Brazilian cherry, black walnut, maple,dyed veneers, brass and colored epoxy.
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- Tornado bowl of sapelle, black walnut, maple, wenge and cherry
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- Diamond bowl of black walnut, padauk, maple and yellowheart
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- Segmented cherry, bloodwood, wenge and maple salad bowl (11.25″ x 4.5″; $200, sold)
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- Maple, mahogony and wenge bowl (8.5″ x 6″)
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- Padauk, black walnut and fiddleback maple (13.5″ x 5″)