Wooden Bowls/Corners; How to?

[dtotherob]

bumping this up as i am working on a corner for my garage mini right now.  some good info here krusher.  i'll be sure to use some of your tips.  i'll start a new thread in the next few days here with my build.

[krusher]

Cool thanks. I hope to skate Mental Block some day

There are so many ways to build corners and humps but the people who do it for a living refuse to give up the info.

Check out the corners on this bowl

SUPRA Presents The Tom Penny Overture

[oldmanskater]

Hello there, I was the creator of the micro bowl that was in the garage you referenced... sorry I didn't see the post.

Anywho, we took her down and are re-building her in a bigger garage.


Here's look at the bigger corner we had to build from scratch


Here is how I cut the radius into the rib (I found the radius the same way you did/the image in your first post suggests)


As you mentioned, there are a bunch of different ways to get it done, and I think you can't find too much info on it cause it's so damn hard to describe. 

As far as layering - I'm still wondering about that.  When I did mine, I used two different techniques - scribing and overlapping.  Again, pretty hard to describe so I'll try to document when we get to that part of our build.

Although I'd love to take a week off of work and work for free for Team Pain just to figure out how they get their bowls so tight, the one lesson we learned is that don't sweat the smalls stuff.  Once you get it close - whether it be a rib or layer, nail it down.  Once you start skating it, unless it's a major fuck up, you won't notice. 

Krusher, house ramp looks like a blast.
dtotherob, good luck and hit me up with any questions.

--Paul

[one]

bondo is your friend

[dtotherob]

Cool thanks. I hope to skate Mental Block some day

There are so many ways to build corners and humps but the people who do it for a living refuse to give up the info.

Check out the corners on this bowl

you are always welcome up here krusher. i'm building it to be around for a while.  i did peep that penny clip.  so rad.

Hello there, I was the creator of the micro bowl that was in the garage you referenced... sorry I didn't see the post.

dtotherob, good luck and hit me up with any questions.

--Paul

thanks Paul!  i will hit you up if i have questions. that looks crazy.  the start was time consuming, but after some practice, i can see it going pretty smooth. 

here's where i'm at right now. we figured out our radius' and measurements and built the top rung.

[oldmanskater]

Doesn't it feel good to get a row done?!?! 

Your method to finding the radius is on point, but it might be easier to reverse it.  Meaning, drop a plumb line along the template where the next rib will fall.  Mark the bottom of the template, then measure from that point to the bottom tip of the template. That's your radius. And it doesn't have to be perfect, just get it close.

Does that make sense? 

[one]

here's some tips not sure if you know this or not. 

all rib rows are the same radius across

The radius of the ribs is the same as the radius of the transition template if it comes to a point on the bottom.  (easiest)

don't kill yourself on the compound angles if your off a little

[dtotherob]

Doesn't it feel good to get a row done?!?! 

Your method to finding the radius is on point, but it might be easier to reverse it.  Meaning, drop a plumb line along the template where the next rib will fall.  Mark the bottom of the template, then measure from that point to the bottom tip of the template. That's your radius. And it doesn't have to be perfect, just get it close.

Does that make sense? 

ya that does make a lot of sense lol!  not sure why we didn't think to measure that way, but it's worked out.  i have all the radius measurements now.

it felt great to finish a row.  we were stoked. hoping to finish the skeleton tonite. 

thanks again for the tips!

here's some tips not sure if you know this or not. 

all rib rows are the same radius across

The radius of the ribs is the same as the radius of the transition template if it comes to a point on the bottom.  (easiest)

don't kill yourself on the compound angles if your off a little

ya each of our radius measuements were a bit different for each "pie piece" so we just went with an average of the 4. i actually don't know what the transition radius is of the ramp.  i freehanded it when i first built it lol!  it seems to be working out just fine. 

thanks for the input though.