On Jul 24, 4:05*pm, Kevin Miller wrote:
StephenM wrote:
I am going to take a stab at a segmented bowl. When gluing together the
"rings" of segments, how does one ensure that the rings remain centered
around the axis rotation for the glue block? It would seem to be that if
done by eye it would be OK for a layer or three but any error could
accumulate. If there a trick or technique for keeping the stacked rings
concentric?

Pretty easy actually. *First, cut some little 1/4" cubes. *Take your
first segment ring and lay it flat on the workbench. *Position the 2nd
ring where you want it. *Take some CA glue and apply a drop to one of
the little cubes then spray the bottom segment ring with some activator.
*Put the cube w/glue on it in place. *I usually use four cubes per ring,
placed at north, south, east and west. *Be careful not to glue the rings
together w/the CA.

Now, take the top ring, slather it up w/your glue of choice and put it
back in the same position. *The little cubes will keep it centered while
you clamp it. *Being little pieces of wood, they turn off easily...

...Kevin
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Another similar method i use is to cut up icecream sticks from a craft
store and after aligning the ring, glueing them on to the lower ring
with a hot glue gun. You still have to be careful not to get any glue
on the new ring, but it works great. If the ring sizes are close, glue
two of the sticks in a T shape and use those for the alignment. I
learned that in a class i recently took.

Mike