Editor’s note: This design is a “double segmented” piece. The insert design is, itself, a segmented ring that is sliced and inserted into the segmented bowl.

To find the exact size of everything, I start out drawing out the outside shape of the segmented insert. For this example, the dimensions are 2 ½” by 1 ½”. It takes a 4 in outside diameter to get the 2 pieces inside the circle.

The measurement of one segment is.750 and using a 1/8 veneer makes it .625.

Cut the veneer thicker for better fitting and sand it down to the correct angles. The veneer is glued to 14 pieces of the 16 piece segments leaving the intersecting without and use a 1/8 thick spacer to separate the two halves.

When the glue is dried install it in Cole jaws on the lathe with the clamp still holding the two halves together and drill a 1 1/8” hole in the center.

When glue dries, take it to the bandsaw

and cut it into two pieces through the 1/8” spacers.

Take the to halves the disk sander and flatten the bottom edge, then take them to the table saw and cut them to 1 ½”.

Then, using the crosscut miter gauge cut it to 2 1/2″.

Now you have the finished insert piece to insert into a segmented ring.