Woodturning A Three Corner Bowl: The Cookies and Cream Cube Bowl - Walnut with Epoxy Resin

Woodturning A Three Corner Bowl: The Cookies and Cream Cube Bowl - Walnut with Epoxy Resin

I’ve been wanting to try turning a cube on a bias, which results in a three sided, three winged, tri-corner or three corner bowl. I have a couple of pieces of kiln dried walnut about 2” thick so I made a 5.5” cube mold from melamine, and actually remembered to spray it with Stoner mold release before I cast it! 😃
I used a piece of the 2” walnut as the bookends and added a piece of 3/4” walnut in the middle of those, so when I poured the resin it would end up as racing stripes of sorts. Because I used the Stoner spray, the hot glue would not stick to the melamine and I had to just set the pieces in and then held them down with a piece of melamine on top and duct tape. Because I couldn’t glue the pieces down, they shifted slightly when I poured the resin and a little bit leaked around the outsides and the bottom of the wood, resulting in the racing stripes not being full to the top with resin, so I didn’t have a perfect cube anymore. After making the blank into a cube again on the table saw (I had to cut through from the top and bottom on both sides and then cut the little strip left in the middle on the bandsaw) I ended up with a cube about 5” square.

The blank is only held between the spindle and the tail center by friction, and the point in my tail center is not removable as far as I can tell so I wanted to cut a flat spot on the corner held by the tailstock that would allow it to sit right and apply even pressure against the spindle. I watched a video by @RoboHippy and he did it on a table saw, but I’m too lazy and didn’t want to change out the throat plate on mine so I used my compound miter saw instead. I set the miter angle to 45º and then adjusted the bevel to somewhere around 35º (I drew a line across the corner with a speed square as RoboHippy did and used the laser guide on the saw to get it close).

Things went pretty smoothly with the turning, and I really liked the way it came out. I had planned to make a lid and finial to go on top and decided that I would go ahead and make it to fit this bowl and if I didn’t like it I didn’t have to use it. I liked it OK with the lid and finial, but liked it better without so will save the top bits and make a bowl/box thing to go with it.



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