| Project by Bill Akins | posted 1134 days ago | 936 views | 1 time favorited | 8 comments |  |
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A coworker, Brenda, is retiring at the end of the year. She cut down a cherry tree in her front yard and brought me some of the logs so I made her a couple of bowls. I started them months ago. I left them thick, coated them with paste wax and paper bagged them. After about 3 months on the shelf, they had finished drying so I re-turned them and thinned them down. After several sandings I coated them with a mix of shellac/mineral spirits/boiled linseed oil. Then a few coats of regular shellac and then polished with Renaisance wax.
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SCOTSMAN
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#1 posted 1134 days ago
Well done wow looking good ! can I just say you need to be more careful making bowls is highly addictive.I have been hooked for years myself, and have no wish to recover .LOL Alistair
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#2 posted 1134 days ago
Bill,
You did a fine job with these.
Very nice turning.
Lee
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#3 posted 1134 days ago
They look great. I’m learning turning myself and as Alistair said, it does seem addictive.
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buckeyedudes
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#4 posted 1134 days ago
Very nice! How did you keep the log from splitting on the ends?
Thanks.
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#5 posted 1134 days ago
Wonderful job of bowling looks like she liked them
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scrappy
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#6 posted 1134 days ago
Great pair of bowls. Nice shapes and grain. Looks like she is very happy with her present.
Keep it up.
Scrappy
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#7 posted 1132 days ago
Gorgous bowls Bill.
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#8 posted 682 days ago
Love the color in those! Im also a big fan of cherry. Pretty much any fruitwood actually. Beautiful bowls
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