A few months back, I wrote about a project that I had started in collaboration with a woman I work with from Atlanta, who is a weaver.  I had made two bowls out of white oak, cut them in half, and sent them down to her.  She was going to weave them back together.  The hope was we’d end up with an elongated bowl, like bread is served in.  Well yesterday, she returned them with the weaving done.  WOW!  Michele Payne, they look AWESOME!  There was a little “finish work” to do, so since an ice storm hit last night, I got some shop time today.  This is the first of the two bowls.

It needed some wooden strips across the top to finish off the top of the weaving, but I couldn’t find any white oak that would match the grain of the bowl without it looking “weird”, so I put in strips made from mahogany.  Finished the final sanding, hit it with a couple coats of a food safe polyurethane, and declared this project done.  VERY, VERY happy with the results!  I haven’t seen anyone else doing something like this, so if it’s nothing else, it’s original.

Thank you, Michele, for your work on this one.  Can’t wait to see what else is possible!