I have a hoarder's obsession with making use of perfectly good off-cuts, so when I got these perfect circles from the mid-century dog food bowls - I set them aside for this project. Since I don't have a lathe, I thought I'd play with bevel cuts and an angle grinder to knock out these DIY decorative dishes.
PSA: Yes, I know: USE A GRINDER GUARD - but hear me out, mine must have fallen out somewhere over the Atlantic, because it was no where to be found. So I supplemented with protective eye wear, did my best to avoid too much debris.
Basic Tools for the Build:
Ryobi 10" Table Saw -
Ryobi Angle Grinder -
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The circle-cut off-cuts I’d use for these decorative dishes actually came from an earlier project where I put together some mid century dog food bowls, link in the top right, and decided it would be a waste to just chuck two perfectly good flat, symmetrical circles.
To get the bottom side taper for these dishes done without a lathe, I decided to deconstruct a basic taper jig, aka, a square piece of three quarter inch ply, and add a small anchor screw through the bottom face.
I then set the table saw to its farthest angle setting, and cranked it up to just under the total height of the ply plus the cut piece.
Then, I placed the center mark of the cut piece on the small anchor pin of the screw. This had already been marked by the anchor of the circle cutting jig during the previous project.
After that, I slowly slid the entire jig toward the blade, and began rotating the cut piece over it, taking away only a little bit at a time.
With the bottom tapers in, I needed to work on hollowing out the top some. I replaced the small anchor screw with a slightly longer one, to hold the cut pieces a little tighter to the jig.
Then clamped that to the work bench and got to work with an angle grinder cutting away the design.
I also mistakenly only packed one type of cut plate for this grinder when we moved to Afria - which was made for metal - so going into this, I knew it was going to burn the wood. I thought that would add some cool texture, so I went with it. But if you like a softer look, I’d look into the different options available!
Once I was happy with the depth of the dish and the design, I sanded down the bottom sides.
Then, all that was left to do was finish!
And that’s a wrap!
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