Wood Turning

[charlesrolf]

After seeing the pictures of using plywood I decided to give it a try since I have a lot of scrap laying around.

[fgvanatta]

Pretty nice work with some exceptionally hard-to-turn material, especially the bowl.  Very interesting.

[handy-dan]

Nice job. I really like the bowl.  It strikes my fancy.

Dan

[william young]

Nice work.

I rather enjoy turning plywood  because of all the nice effects it produces.

As you have already found out it requires scary sharp tools to get a clean cut and that just makes it more of a nice  challenge compared to turning solid wood.

I have found that cabinet grade plywood as well as Baltic birch plywood  have the least voids  . I visit  the remnant bins at builders supply stores and pick up pieces for about half of normal price.

[charlesrolf]

It is very hard to turn, but the results are worth it. I ended up putting a solid wood bottom on the bowl. The bowl bottom came apart as I was finishing it, so added the solid wood to save the bowl.

Thanks for looking.