Haven’t been using the GF lately, and been busy with life! Good to see this community is continuing to thrive.
Here’s what I’ve been working on lately, a harvest bowl for the heirloom tomato garden. It’s about 12" in diameter. If I could cut the segments on the laser…
It’s a good looking bowl! Glad to see you around, even if you aren’t playing with lasers right now.
You could but layers would be 3/8" thick at best. Otoh, lots of pieces in an interlocking pattern and then turned would use up a lot of scrap and be really amazing. 
Lovely!!
Beautiful colors!
It’s beautiful!!
Honestly if I had that thin of scrap I’d do it. I’m actually remaking this same bowl but alternating the segments to get more of a random pattern and doing it thin might be really cool. I just need 1/4 to 3/8 thick stock. I haven’t cut Purple Heart on the laser but have maple, walnut and Paduk.
Hmmmm………
There are a number of folks selling “scrap” exotic wood from 1/8" to 1/2" thick and usually 3" wide by 12 or 24 inches long. I bought a lot of it early on when I was expecting to sell more retail results. Below a half inch, I could do some deep relief engraving, but not thicker, so I never got the thicker stuff, but to put together something for the lathe there is a lot more flexibility.
It is normally way less expensive than buying the specific case.
Nice looking project!
Was thinking about this more and my problem would be glue up with anything thinner than 1/4 inch. But I’m making plans for it. I have a 2"x8"x6’ slab of Paduck I’ll cut strips from.
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