What became of that big ole log — follow up to my first wet-turned box elder bowl

Here is what the wet bowl looked like.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Douglas that is how you learn – try, then try again. Perfect size bowl for a small salad :-)). The wood is beautiful and the bowl look good.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Douglas, I’ve only turned wet once. It was fun, but the result never saw the light of day.

Your small bowl is very nice; quite delicate looking and a beautiful color.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

end result: Beautiful!!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Douglas, what I know about wet turning youcould put in your ear and have room left over for your hat. The bowl looks neat and trim and the color is very unique. i don’t think you hurt yourself here.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Great Bowl, Handy for some dainty rose petals.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

just trying to fis something, sorry

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Thanks folks.

Karson, that is a very poetic sentiment! Now I’ll have to give it to the wife and I have the perfect presentation.

I held it up to the light to see if it would transilluminate (you can see the light through the bottom). But specifically you can see all the way through that little knot. Tiny little hole there. Perfect for the dry measure of rose petals!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I salute you, Douglas! Great job on your first try at turning green wood. You’ll find that it always looks fuzzy when turned green, too. I’ve turned a lot of things, but haven’t made a saucer or bowl. :^( Keep up the great work and work on those sharpening skills. They are very important in turning. You may want to look into the Scary Sharp way of sharpening…it uses different grades of sandpaper, instead of stones that are glued with adhesive(spray) onto a piece of acrylic or other smooth flat surface. It works well. In the furture…save some of your shavings and/or dust from sanding…this way you can fill that hole with a little Titebond and saw dust, then just sand it flush after it dries, thus eliminating the hole while matching the color of the original wood by using it’s own dust/shavings.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Very nice Doug. I’d like that on my desk to hold stuff.

One of these days I’ll actually try my hand. I like the idea of turning green wood.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Thanks Oscorner! I do the scary-sharp on my plane irons, and have one side of auto safety glass lined with P 80, backside ramps through the grits up to P3000 with Japanese auto body paper. I never considered honing the skews, gouges and scrapers. I’ve been on the net looking at Alan Lacer’s posted material. If I ever get seriously dedicated to bowl work I’ll consider getting a good grinder and a Wolverine or Oneway jig. The thing that really gets my goat, I have a super Ashley Iles 3/4˝ oval skew that I have butchered up trying to sharpen. Maybe I need to try and sell some pens or other projects to foot the bill. So many tools, so little money.

Since Dan Walters has shown up, I had the thought that maybe we should have a LJ consortium-store on eBay. I can’t see any of us buying from each other, perhaps it’s time we showcase our things to the unsuspecting public. Just a thought. I might have to swing over to the coffee lounge and post this.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Doug, just awesome! I’d love to get my hands on some box elder.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Great job on the bowl. The color of box elder is incrediable.

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

Excellent proportions, and little knotholes like that can add a lot of character to a bowl. Good job!

-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle

beautiful piece.
love the wood.
great design.

-- ..... art for lifes sake

Great looking bowl Doug. I think you did a great job. I through away 2 for every good looking bowl I make. Keep up the good work. jockmike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

I think it looks great!.

-- surplusdealdude

Doug, one of the first things I did when I started turning was to buy another turners work. I chalked it up to ‘priming the pump’. Sold $220+ worth of pens to a single customer last week and often go beyond $100 per ticket. That won’t make me rich … but it gooses the steady trickle of onesies / twosies and keeps the credit card payments up so I can buy more ‘stuff’. ;-)

My bowls are at http://nmwoodworks.com/cube/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=9&ccSIDb4c410adddf67168ce2ac0e2807326f8=efd583850f075807accc5d83494b0878
(mind the wrap)

You can look without buying. ;-)

-- http://nmwoodworks.com (pens & bowls, mostly)

Fellas, having just walked away from an unscheduled 11 hour day at work, and coming home to a raft of supportive comments like this is a treat. Thanks so much. I had only read about boxelder in FWW, and seen this bowl on FWW.com.
Glorious stuff.

Bill I have never seen CubeCart. Tell us more, and BTW great variety of beautiful bowls you have there, hope more LJs show up to visit.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Douglas – I really like the way this turned out and it was fun following this from the beginning! The form, figure, and color are all really interesting and pleasing to look at! Overall, this piece (in some way) is reminiscent of abalone.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Douglas can you enter this item . I thought the picture might be box elder wood. Maybe you can help with the identification.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Doug, I just noticed this bowl of yours, & I thought it was one that i made. It looks almost identical, except mine is maple. I’ll have to post a pic. of mine.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Douglas
this is one sweet bowl.
looking forward to seeing more of your work. push some buttons for your digital camera !!

Regards
DAN

-- ..... art for lifes sake