Carve a small dish for wrapped treats or small objects. See how to design a round wooden dish in Easel, then explore finished dishes and stacked-ring bowls from community makers.
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Start from a blank workpiece
Start with a blank workpiece and set the stock thickness to 1¼ inches. Add a 6-inch outer circle and a 5-inch inner circle to leave a half-inch rim. Set the inner pocket to ¾ inch deep, leaving a half-inch bottom. The real Easel recording shows the thicker stock and deeper flat-bottomed pocket in the native 3D preview. The outside outline reaches the stock thickness; choose tabs, workholding and cut settings before carving. This is a design demonstration, not a complete cutting setup.
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Pocketed dishes start with a thicker blank. Layered bowls build height from flat parts. These makers show both approaches, with shared designs you can adapt.
Footprint Bowlby Julio AguiarAguiar made this paw-shaped bowl for his grandson. Its five compartments make room for small objects or wrapped treats. Three workpieces supply the pocketed outline and additional contour passes. The gallery lists bubinga and cherry plywood; choose stock and depths to suit the version you make.
Conversation Heart Candy Dishesby Mo StychA message appears at the bottom of these heart-shaped candy dishes. Stych shows painted and natural-wood versions, with four workpieces covering individual hearts and a two-heart layout. Change the message and wood to make a gift for someone you know.
Fruit Bowlby Harry C. RaglandRagland made this open-sided fruit bowl from a white-oak board cut into two shorter sections and glued into a square blank. The shared file supplies nested outlines for the bowl layers. Its open construction holds whole fruit while keeping the bowl lighter than a solid carved block.
Stacked Ring Candy Dishby Harry C. RaglandBuild a small bowl from scalloped rings instead of clearing a deep pocket. Ragland cut versions in Baltic birch and pine. One workpiece supplies the nested ring outlines and base; the numbered assembly image shows their stacking order.
Easter Rabbit Bowl - Easy Starter Projectby Warren DownesA painted rabbit silhouette surrounds a small well for wrapped chocolate eggs. Downes makes the dish by gluing three flat parts together. The shared workpiece contains the layered shapes, and the instructions show tab cleanup, glue-up and painting.
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Ragland places each scalloped ring slightly out of line with the ring below it. The outer bumps of the lower ring support the inner bumps above. Follow the numbered order in his assembly image, then rotate the layers before gluing so the open sides keep their support.
Project notes by Harry C. Ragland: read the source.
From Stacked Ring Candy Dish by Harry C. Ragland.
Ask a questionStych spaced and resized the letters in her heart dishes so a quarter-inch bit could clear the pocket around them. For your own message, check the gaps between letters as well as the letter shapes. Fine lettering may need a smaller detail bit after the larger bit clears the pocket.
Project notes by Mo Stych: read the source.
From Conversation Heart Candy Dishes by Mo Stych.
Ask a questionDownes wipes away excess glue with a damp cloth while assembling the rabbit dish. He clamps or weights the three layers before painting. Cleaning the joints at glue-up leaves less dried glue to remove around the small recess and the outside edges.
Project notes by Warren Downes: read the source.
From Easter Rabbit Bowl - Easy Starter Project by Warren Downes.
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