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My guess would be glue up and turn thick, then carve - agree with your first thought. Not too hard to power carve while mounted on the lathe.
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Could have used one of those power carvers with the course grit on a four inch grinder and then sanded of which I have seen
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Another approach is a ring stacking technique: take a flat board (here, a glue up of small pieces), then saw a series of successively smaller rings out of the board. Stack, glue and finish sand.
-Mark
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Mystery Solved!
I was able to find an email address for the artist of this piece, Richard Morris. I reached out to him and asked how it was made. Here is his reply:
" It is a segmented bowl with a 2” thick wall at the top going to about 1” towards the bottom. I use a 2” carbide bit on an air grinder. I use the 24 spots to lock the bowl in the lathe. The grinder is in a wooden sled and a wooden table on in place of the tool rest. I put 12 scallops inside and outside. "
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My guess scrollsaw. I have done baskets like that and just stack rings.
John T.
