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Before last St. Patrick’s Day. I was brainstorming ideas for video projects. Somehow probably with the proximity to the holiday, one idea was a shamrock bowl: a single bowl with three lobes like a three leaf clover. I’d seen other shamrock bowls turned from solid wood but they were always still a round bowl.

I set to work to design a bowl whose exterior also looked like a three leaf clover. Three segmented bowls could be cut up and glued together – but how? Questions came up. How to cut the bowls accurately? How to hold the bowls safely and securely? One answer: leave the bottom off to enable clamping. Other answers followed: jigs and fixtures. Then sawing, gluing and a lot of sanding.

I did not finish the shamrock bowl for publication in time for that holiday. It is a good thing that it comes around every year.

My shamrock bowl is about nine inches diameter and a little over three inches high, finished with wipe-on poly.

Enjoy.