first bowl

Beautiful!!

I like the shape of this.

If it’s like our house, you must have to refill it about 5 times a day ;^)

I like the bowl and the M&M trick. I might try that trick in my potato bin I plan on building.

-- I always have tomorrow to stop procrastinating. WoodyWoodWrecker

looks great

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

lol…but then the flaws will show since the m&ms cant last too long?!!

looks great to me…I have yet to turn a bowl or plate on my shopsmith…someday…

wood love to see some picts of your set up…

matt

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

”found out that if i fill it with M&Ms the flaws become much less noticeable!”

Why do you think my wifes Salt Celar was filled before I took the pics of the inside?

Great job on your first bowl. Love the shape and wood grain. Came out nice.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

First bowls shouldn’t really be this nice. It makes us experienced turners look bad. I hated my first bowl, but wouldn’t you know it, my wife liked it, so we still have it after 14 or so years. I really would like to get rid of it. On the other hand you might want to hang on to yours, it’s a lot better than mine.

-- Mike, American in Norway

First bowls should be kept…... then we can look back and see how far we have come. Keep the chips flying…...... and the M&M coming.

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

Good job it inspires me to try one on my shopsmith!

-- Woodisit

Good job. Love the grain pattern of Sycamore.

-- Bill, WV

I agree first bowls should be kept. I didn’t have much choice with mine, nobody else would have wanted it. Yours on the other hand is a wonderful start down the addictive road of bowl turning.

-- Bill Roberts -- Steal one idea it's called plagerism. Steal a bunch - it's called research

Great start JC. I like it even more, since it was done on the SS. Which model do you have?

-- I may not know a lot, but at least I know that I don't know.?.?. I think. http://chathampenworks.com/

Thank you all for your great comments and encouragement!

I had to turn the bowl to just the right angle for the picture to not show the many flaws; we have run out of M&Ms in the house, so I filled it with almonds thinking those will go slower :-)

Sef it’s a 520.

-- JC - Central PA - www.affyx.com

Ooooo… I like it very much. The nice light color is very appealing to me.

-- Lisa Chan, custom cafts and yarn accessories, http://www.grippingyarn.com

Perhaps I will try the M&M trick to cover the flaws on my blanket chest project.

-- Mike, Waukesha, WI