Project Information
I was cleaning up the barn and sorting logs that I want to keep and those that have cracked too much to be of any good. There was this slab from a Box Elder tree that I have been tripping over for months and I was going to burn it because it was cracked and delaminating in pieces. I cut it in half and thought it might have one good bowl in it. The piece I started with was about 4" thick but I could soon see that half of that would be flying off the lathe at me so I chiseled the loose part off and this is what was left. Before turning the inside, I had to load the cracked area with West System epoxy and it stayed intact to finish it.
It finished at 8 3/4" dia and 1 7/8" high. It is coated with clear lacquer and waxed.
The last shot shows the rest of the log that this bowl came from. Nothing solid on it except the sap wood.
SOLD
It finished at 8 3/4" dia and 1 7/8" high. It is coated with clear lacquer and waxed.
The last shot shows the rest of the log that this bowl came from. Nothing solid on it except the sap wood.
SOLD