Bowl 10 of 100 bowls in 100 days challenge
This Curly Maple wood bowl is #10 in turning 100 wooden bowls in 100 days. Yep, we’re 10% of the way there and it feels good. This bowl has a deeper color than some of the other Curly Maple bowls that you have seen on here because the log that the bowl was turned from …
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Bowl 9 of 100 wooden bowls challenge
Today’s bowl is #9 in my 100 bowls challenge. This is a 10 inch Curly Maple wooden salad bowl. As you can see from the picture above that this bowl features a lot of curly figure. This bowl is 2 1/2 inches high and has a rounded rim. You can read more about this bowl …
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Bowl 8 of 100 bowls in 100 days
The bowl pictured above is bowl #8 in my 100 bowls in 100 days challenge. This is a shallow 7 inch wooden bowl made from Curly Maple. You can read more about this bowl on my website. I believe that this wood bowl was the 5th bowl taken from that particular block of wood. …
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Collaboration with Becca Bowl 7 of 100 bowls in 100 days
I have long admired the woodturning artists who add pyrography (fancy word for wood burning) to their pieces and I’ve wanted to try something with pyrography on some of my pieces for a while now. The inspiration for this piece came from a challenge from the President of our local woodturning club, Peter Walen. …
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Bowl 6 of 100 bowls in 100 days
This is the sixth bowl in my 100 bowls in 100 days odyssey. This wooden cherry bowl is 8 inches in diameter and 2 1/2 inches high. I love the color and grain lines of cherry. A bonus for me is that the cherry has a pleasant smell to it and leaves my shop smelling …
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Bowl 5 of 100 bowls in 100 days
This is bowl #5 in my quest to turn 100 bowls in 100 days and it’s a wonderful Walnut Burl wooden bowl that was hand turned here in Maine. I’ve turned a lot of Walnut Burl but I can’t remember coming across a piece as highly figured as this. This bowl has burl patterns …
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