Segmented Bowls

Turning Wood in a World Turned Upside Down

By on November 15, 2020

I have been uncharacteristically quiet for a year. So many reasons. The sadness of watching my mother struggle through the final months of her life, tempered by the gift of being there until the end. Ted holding down the fort at home so that I could be with her and with my sister. As the […]

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Turning a Segmented Sphere

By on May 10, 2019

Recently I’ve been making a number of segmented spheres. For my most recent, I took photos to demonstrate the process of turning a segmented sphere. Planning First I decide how large I want the sphere to be — this one is a little over 8 inches in diameter, about the size of a volleyball. I […]

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Earthquake Bowl

By on March 21, 2019

Recently we received an email from some good customers in Eagle River, Alaska, who own several of Ted’s dizzy bowls. One was a bowl we named Marmalade because its color scheme resembled the orange stuff you’d spread on toast. Unfortunately, it was a casualty of the November 2018 magnitude 7.1 earthquake that caused millions of […]

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Dizzy Bowls We Have Known and Loved

By on June 17, 2015

Over the past year, Ted created a series of Dizzy Bowls that sold almost as quickly as he could make them.  Dizzy Bowls are segmented bowls that are constructed, starting at the top, from a series of rings.  The process is time-consuming and requires meticulous accuracy in cutting and laminating the various woods that make […]

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What Is A Dizzy Bowl?

By on June 23, 2014

After watching a YouTube video by Dennis Edwards on a unique type of segmented bowl called a Dizzy Bowl, Ted decided to give it a try.  He started by cutting and gluing together different widths of butternut, walnut, padauk, dyed veneer, phoebe, cherry, maple, bloodwood, purpleheart, lacewood, spalted alder, and figured maple. Out of this block, he cut four […]

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