Our competition this month at my woodturning club was to make something out of plywood.
I've never done this before, but we had a very informative demo from one of our senior turners and it intrigued me enough to have a go. One thing I have going for me is that, if they teach you one thing at luthiery school, it's how to glue lots of little fiddly bits of wood together!
So: you start with a lot of this:
Cut it up, mitre it to bits and glue it all back together again:
Some more glueing up, then turn the bottom half of the vase bowl:
Then the top half:
Glue them together:
Glue some more for a neck (offset to get a 45deg angle):
Turn the neck (sorry, no pic) and then glue that on and turn to the finished article:
Slap on some paste wax, and voila: