My wife\\\\\'s new Salad Bowl

A thing of beauty that will indeed be a joy forever.

Beautiful. It needs no other adjectives.

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Very nice bowl! Thanks for sharing!

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Hey Ira, fantastic grain in this piece and a beautiful bowl that I am sure your wife will enjoy for years….!

-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/

WOW! Beautiful bowl!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Irv:

I hope that you like salads, because, that bowl should be in use every day.

A beautiful job.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Beautiful work, and impressive getting it that thin. Is this your normal technique for working with green Walnut? i work with a lot of green walnut and I’m always looking for tips to finish. How many grades of sandpaper do you use? Do you power sand or just use a the speed of the lathe? Thanks for sharing FordMike

wonderful bowl

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

have a look at THIS and THIS
i dont know if these are available in the US but if you can get them, it’s definately worth it
if you sand to 240 grit, the abrasive in it continues your sanding to about 1200 grit. The higher grit you go, the higher it goes.

Might save you all that time sanding

-- BRODY. NSW AUSTRALIA -arguments with turnings are rarely productive-

Gorgeous bowl.

Thanks for the comments.
FordMike, I started with a standing (but dying) tree some 17 months ago. Milled, stickered, sealed and left for a year. Rough turned in Dec and boxed in turnings for three month. Turned down a bit more and then given a 48 hour soaking in 99% alcohol. let dry on a shelf for 6 week. Turned down to final shape, sanded all the way to 2000 grit, then rubbed out with a brown paper bag, while still on the lathe. Then a good application of Tung oil.
I will let the bowl set for a month or so, then use the Beall Three Step buff/wax system.
I watched the moisture with a meter. I end up about 9% before I did the final work.

-- Rustfever, Central California

beautiful piece

-- Dreaming patterns

Fantastic bowl. Sure your wife will just love using this on a daily basis.

Keep it up.

Scrappy

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