Here is an osage orange, or hedge bowl. It developed a small crack in the sapwood during drying.
Another osage bowl in various stages on the lathe.
wooden bowls
Bald Cypress Bowl and More
Cypress bowl on the lathe.
Same bowl on the bench.
A few other shop pictures…
A white oak chair leg for a repair job, being bent in a form. The leg was turned and bent while green. You can see my first failed attempt.
flattening a walnut half for turning with a fore-plane
Little Persimmon Bowl
Here is a pretty (I think) little persimmon bowl, turned green. The rim is grey as a result of the blank being sealed with wax for a few months before it was worked. My guess is the moisture being trapped against the surface of the wood- which shed its cellular moisture first (the interior retaining it’s cellular moisture, ie green), and therefore “weathered” grey. The bowl has also distorted as it has dried.
Three-legged Ash Stools and Bowls
Here are two different 3-legged stools, in Green Ash.
This one has a handle, like a milking stool.
An Ash plate, bowl, walnut bowl, and a small persimmon dish.
Post Oak Bowl
Quercus Stellata, Post Oak. Finished with olive oil.
Persimmon Bowl
A small bowl turned from green persimmon wood back in september. It has distorted as it dried.
Four Bowls
Below are four bowls (from left) in elm, cottonwood, cottonwood, and ash.
The second cottonwood bowl taken from the crotch-wood.
The Ash bowl.
Bowls on the Mantle.
We have been making a lot of bowls lately, here are some of them.
A row of bowls on the mantle. Some are turned on a foot powered pole-type lathe and some on an electric lathe.
One in green ash, and one in cottonwood.
One in bald cypress and one in walnut.
Bowl blanks just cut and ready to have the ends coated with paraffin. Species here are, persimon, green ash, post oak, black walnut, and bald cypress.
Two More Bowls In Ash
Two new bowls in green ash. The one on the left was turned by my wife.
Two Bowls
The second bowl, in ash. I counted forty growth rings in this bowl, and it represents less than half of the tree’s radius.
The ash bowl with oiled with walnut oil.
Two bowls. One in walnut and one in ash.
Hollowing the walnut bowl on the lathe
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