Bowls 14, 15 and 16 off 100 wooden bowls in 100 days challenge

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Three dyed spiral wood Maple bowls

Well I got started again last week on posting my 100 wooden bowls in 100 days challenge and wouldn’t you know it I hurt myself. I was working on a natural edge bowl and cut the inside of my thumb pretty badly. It wasn’t really a turning accident because I had stopped the lathe to remove a piece of bark. The bark was more stubborn than I thought it would be and I was to stupid to use a tool to break the bark free so I got what I deserved. When the bark finally did come free I cut my thumb on a sharp edge of the bowl where the bark had just been. Anyways I had to stop turning for a few days while the cut healed up. Normally I would just throw a band-aid on the cut area and curse myself out for doing something really stupid but every time I applied pressure to a tool I was in pain so I figured I should smarten up and listen to the little voice in my head. Yep, the same little voice that I didn’t listen to earlier when I was removing the piece of bark. Ah, the trials and tribulations of a wood turner.

Spiral bowls. So what I have for you today are a series of three wooden bowls that I’ve colored and spiral textured the bottoms of. Maybe I should call them M & M bowls because the inspiration for them came from the different colors of M & M candies. But I think I will call them spiral bowls so that I don’t get sued.

Bottom of dyed blue spiral Maple wood bowl

Each bowl was turned in the same way, then I dyed the bottom either blue, green or red and then I textured the bottom to come up with a spiraling effect. These are all small wood bowls because this was an experiment but I like the overall effect of both the color and texturing so I will try this on some salad bowls soon to see how those come out.

You can read more about the blue bowl here.