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Bowl 2 of 100 bowls in 100 days

Today’s bowl is a Spalted Maple wooden bowl. This is wood bowl #2 out of the 100 bowls challenge. This spalted maple wood bowl is just stunning. This bowl features a wide flat rim that slopes in toward the center of the bowl. The rim has been undercut which gives you a nice area to …

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100 bowls in 100 days

The other day I decided that I need a new challenge. So just like one of the great thinkers of our time, Winnie the Pooh, I sat down and kept hitting my head with my hand all the while repeating “Think, think, think”. And after a little while it came to me that hitting my …

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Headed out to Cape Cod

  Here are three Curly Maple Salad Bowls that are headed to Cape Cod. Well they are actually already there. I sent these bowls out a couple weeks ago to Woodworks Gallery in Brewster, Mass. I just haven’t had time to post about them. The largest of the three bowls is 14 inches in diameter …

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The making of a wooden bowl part1

The Curly Maple log pictured above is 42 inches across horizontally and about 35 inches vertically. The chain saw sitting on top of the log has a 36 inch bar on it and right behind it you can see the helmet that I wear when cutting up a log.  The helmet has a face shield …

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Which platters do you like better?

Here are four Ambrosia Maple platters.  They are 16 inches in diameter the overall height is less than 1 inch.  They are made from one wide piece of wood, no glue ups here.  The top picture shows two platters made without center inserts and the bottom picture shows two platters made with center inserts made from …

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