The yarn bowl is turned from Beetle Kill Pine and finished with a spray lacquer finish
Main Tools used in this video
Incra Miter Saw and the Jet Mini lathe
A Recount of the video
As with most every project I started out milling and squaring up the wood. I then moved to my Incra Miter Gauge to cut the wedges for the rings. I did a 12-segmented ring for these bowls. Once I got the rings glued up, I used some adjustable pipe clamps to clamp the rings while they dried. Then using the tail stock of the lathe to apply pressure I glued each ring together judging by eye the offset on the rings.
Obviously turned it round to the shape I wanted. To cut the curly q for the yarn to come through, I made a jig from plywood and clamped it in place with wedges and the tail stock while I routed it. To prevent the bowl from turning on the lathe I used the indexing stops to lock the lathe in place preventing it from turning.
I sanded it before I cut the curly q as it would be easier while it was spinning on the lathe. I then did some touch up sanding around the curly q and parted it off, cleaned up the bottom and took it into the finishing room to spray with a gloss lacquer.