Bowl 4 of 100 bowls in 100 days
Bowl 4 in my series of 100 bowls in 100 days challenge is just a little wooden bowl. The bowl is 5 1/2 inches in diameter and 1 1/4 inches high. The bowl was turned from a Cedar Burl and is the sixth bowl that I have gotten from that burl. This bowl maybe …
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Bowl 3 of 100 bowls in 100 days
This is bowl number 3 of the 100 bowls in 100 days challenge. Today’s bowl is a commission for a wedding present. Thank you LW of New Hampshire for allowing me to make this bowl for the special couple. This Spalted Curly Maple wooden salad bowl is 17 inches in diameter and 6 inches …
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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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Kim and the Skew
I watched a woodturning demo a while ago by Al Mather. He happens to be a friend from Princeton, Maine. Al was demonstrating how to properly use the skew. For those that don’t know, the skew is probably the most feared tool in woodturning. We all make mistakes (catches) from time to time while we …
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My shop after turning pen sets
This what my shop looked like after finishing up an order for 17 pen sets. They were all made from acrylic and each set consisted of a pen, a pencil and a letter opener. As bad as this looks about half of the acrylic shavings are in the trash can (blue object) directly behind the lathe. …
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