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First time working with choke cherry, and first live edge bowl. A coworker was cutting down an old cherry tree in his back yard and invited me to take some of the wood. I wanted to add a bit more shape to this one. Was a lot of fun and I have done a few more live edge bowls since this one.
Anyone else see the two faces??

Thanks for looking and commenting!

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One 't see doesn't see work done from choke cherry to often or at all, very nice patterns in the wood. and the bowl has a very nice shape. The two faces are great, a real keeper.
 

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Great work keeping the bark on. Beautiful grain pattern too.
 

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Wow! That has to be the biggest piece of chokecherry I've ever seen. Normally it grows as a bush with stems around 4" across. Less often do you find it as a tree. I think the largest trunk I've ever seen on a chokecherry tree is around 8 or 9 inches. I've made a few small bowls and a mallet from chokecherry but none of them have grain patterns as nice as your piece.
 

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Great work
 

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This is a new one on me. I've always thought of Chokecherry as a bush, not anything like a tree. But then, there are more things in the world than are dreamt of in my pho=philosophy, aren't there, Horatio? I also thought that way of Hibiscus (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/191770) and Camphor (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/181522), Roses (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/167882), and Plumeria (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/228234).
This bowl is gorgeous. And, yes, I do see the faces. Which leads mt to quote myownbadself:

Normal people look at a tree/shrub/bush and think Pretty tree. Woodsmith thinks I wonder what's in there.
 

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Great job! And I see the faces too - which either means they really are there , or I have been corresponding with Mark Wilson too much lately. :) (Sorry Mark, that one was just too easy to let pass.)

What are the dimensions on this? I always thought of Choke Cherry as a small tree, not a shrub, but I actively train bushes and trees to grow into the shapes I want for canes.

Thanks for posting.
 

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Great job. I love live edge work.
Yes, the faces are there for sure.
Also love the grain and colour.
Thanks for sharing.

Bob
 

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Thanks for the kind comments everyone.
I do believe this is from a Schubert Chokecherry. I have the same tree in my front yard.
The trunk on this particular small tree can easily be 8" to 10" diameter. The log for this bowl I believe was about 8".
I made a few more bowls from this same wood. Will post them soon.
 

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One of these days I'm going to have to try a live edge bowl
 
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