Manufacturing the Bowls, Kwan Ho Chan Post 3

The bowl production process can be split into two major parts. The first part is to recreate the mold due to the fruit bowl being downsized as it’s original form was too large. After a quick testing of bending the re sized, smaller bowl on the old plaster mold, the result was less than stellar as along of the curvature was lost due to downsizing. First the new, smaller fruit ball was placed onto a thick piece of wood and the outline was drawn onto it. Then the outline of the bowl was cut out using a large band-saw. Since the piece of wood was not thick enough, a second piece was drawn and cut out. Then both pieces were glued together using PVA glue and was left to dry with weights on top of it. Once it’s dried, the piece was then band-sawed again and sanded on a disc sander, followed by hand sanding of 180 grade sandpaper.