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Alaskan Birch heartwood.

This is a rework of a piece I posted here on Lumberjocks earlier. I kept looking at it and decided it just needed … more. Something.

Green turned to rough, then dried for several years in my shop here in Palmer, Alaska, before turning to finish.

After turning, I carved the bowl to resemble a foaming whitewater river. I thought I was done at that point, and posted pictures here. But like I said up above, after thinking about it for a while, I decided to complete it with a run with spawning red salmon.

I typically carve pieces like this on the lathe with the spindle locked. Roughing out with a 4" angle grinder. Detail work with the Foredom mini-angle grinder. Finish work with a Foredom detail handset, then finally with hand tools and sandpaper.

The fish are cut from redheart, then each is individually hand carved and shaped, woodburned, and glued into position. Every bowl like this I do has one fish swimming against the tide, you can see him at the bottom of picture 5.

Walnut base.

Whole piece soaked in walnut oil for a day to saturate the wood. Dried. Final finish is lemon oil/beeswax.

It's about 14" in diameter.

These pieces are intended as artwork. They look great, but they don't hold soup worth a damn.

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This is a fantastic work of art. I enjoyed it tremendously! RH
 

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Definitely beautiful art! Soup is over rated anyway.
 

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Wow a work of art, love it!
 

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Thats pretty darn cool!
 

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WOW, that is an excellent piece. Very nice work on it!!

Jim
 

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Wow Great work
 

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Excellent!!
Jim this is Gorgeous! just like the rest of your projects.
Keep them coming.
 

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what an awesome piece of art -
 

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Realy awesome masterpiece of art. Those fishes are just great.
 

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This is so beautiful! I love all your carved turnings!
 

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Looks great. Beautiful job.
 

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Beautiful work of art! looks great!
 

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Very Nice, But not great for M & M's LOL!
 

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A beautiful creation indeed!
A lot of imagination realized in wood!
 

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A lovely piece of art there Jim, I know what you mean in that some pieces just keep coming back at us to add a bit more to it, it's great you just let it develop its own ending.
Top job & a well deserved DT3
cheers
Pete
 

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Amazing work Jim. You seem to have a unique type of turning/carving.

Is your lathe painted with navy colours?
 

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.........but they might hold stones…...........(-:

Someone can surely work in a "kettle of fish" into the comments, don't you think??....(-:

I am finally retiring at the end of this year. Don't think that will be enough to enable me to match the eye catching masterpieces you craft, but it may give me more time to look at the wonderful things you and other LJ's post here.

Seasons Greetings from your neighbor to the south…................
 
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