Over the course of a week, here are the other bowls I finished…
Another bowl from Lisa’s white oak tree. Love the coloration in oak trees when they shoot those lines out that go opposite of the growth rings. It looks like cracks in the wood, but it’s not.I came across the blank for this bowl in my shop, having forgotten ever roughing it out. Judging by the shape and where I found it in the shop, it must have been from at least 4 years ago. What emerged is an ash bowl, about 8 inches across. Pretty boring bowl, but put it next to the garage door and it would make an acceptable key holder.Ok, so willow is either really pretty, or it’s a nightmare. Doesn’t seem to be any middle ground! This piece had all those little bark inclusions throughout it, which actually look pretty cool up close. Kinda like a bird’s eye maple, only really, really soft. Too much sanding with 80 grit and I think you could go right through the side.I don’t remember what kind of wood this little bowl is made out of . Pity, cause if I could remember what kind of wood it was, I’d remember to never use it again! It’s small, about two inched high at the highest point, and maybe 7 inches across. Of those 7 inches, there’s a crack running right through the bottom that’s at least 6 1/2 inches long. This one will get burnt.The curve the outside of this bowl has is called an ogee. This little willow bowl is only 3 inches high and actually turned out really nice. The color differentiation between the heartwood and the sapwood is something I haven’t seen in this wood before.I love the grain that cherry has. For this particular piece of wood, it had started to break down, which is where the dark coloration comes from on the end-grain part of the bowl.This is another piece of cherry from a co-worker’s tree. It ended up being taller than I had expected, because the crack that you can see in this picture sealed up nicely and didn’t have to be removed.Not sure what kind of wood this is, perhaps birch. The spalting (the black lines that run through the bowl) looks pretty good on this one!
