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Alaskan birch bowl, turned, then carved to resemble foaming whitewater. When creating these pieces I typically make the salmon from birch burl. On a whim and because I had the material on hand, I made these from redheart. Each fish is carved individually, they are all unique. The bowl itself was a major major pain to turn, it took about a year between green turning, drying, finish turning, and carving. It's cut from the center of a crotch where the main trunk and a smaller trunk had been forced together and had later merged into a single piece of wood. The grain goes in every direction, there are cracks, four large heartwood knots, and several bark intrusions. But those things are features, not defects, and they're what makes the wood interesting.
It's about 14" in diameter.
It's about 14" in diameter.