A Bowl from a 2 x 4!

You should be in the hunt for the challenge. Wow.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Great Tom

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Pretty cool Tom. Great entry!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Amazing

-- Marge, Colorado

Fancy! Great job and very creative.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Nice Tom. I think that you should do well in the competition. – Good luck to you.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

I still have my 2×4 and no idea of what I want to do. Maybe I’ll make a box of toothpicks! Nice bowl Tom! Like your photography as well.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Very nice execution. You should do well.

-- Maplewood, MN

Oh yes, yes, yes! A great outcome, Mot. And not a right angle or straight line to be seen – it’s along way from its origins. Marvellous. Helpful blog too.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

awesome!!!
a big challenge and you met it with flying colours.
Well done.

from long and rectangular to round and .. round… cool

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Posting after reading blog-

Hey Pisano…....I’ll take a slide. Alot of good thinking in that bowl Mot….Love it!!!!

Even some truely excellent words of woodworking widom: “I’ll workout how to correct the error later. I was still thinking at this point.”

Super work Tom…............a little potpourri and your bowl would set nice on Bob#2’s, 2×4 shelf.

There’s good stuff coming out of the 2×4’s.

Nice looking bowl Mot!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

very creative, it never ceases to amaze me what can be done with a 4 by 2, nice bowl!

-- Colin, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. "Every craftsman was once an amateur"

Ha Ha very clever, just a little “outside the board” thinking here. Change of typical segmented wood for a bowl and voila, a beautiful bowl. I love it. Great job.

-- Bob A in NJ

Mot,

Very creative. You have two photos: one with fruit and the second – are those noodles?

The 2×4 competition was intended to get LJs creative juices flowing. You have done it.

Dalec

Thanks for the comments, folks! This was a fun project and had tons of motivation and inspiration from the LJ community.

Hey dalec, those are the shavings off the lathe. I was scooping them up to throw away but tossed them into the bowl for a picture first.

Cheers!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Nice going, Mot! You are good!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Good job, thinking outside the board.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Doesn’t look anything like a 2×4, nice transformation. Your imagination and skill along with the Nova make a great team. Wood shaving salad, mmmmm my favorite.

-- DocK, WV

Tom -

Absolutely cool!

Great entry and a lot of fun with the teasers in your blog. I like how you left it natural.

BTW, great photography.

David

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

very nice …

-- ..... smalll army of cast iron wingnuts !! cool photo in FORUM

Very Nice, great craftsmanship.

You can’t put a square peg in a round hole, but you can make a round hole out of a 2×4 !!

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Very cool, Mot. It “turned” out nicely!

-- Dust collectors suck.

I still stand by my comment that this turning will be a front-runner. Just saw the birdcage 2X4 posted. Stiff competition. and here I thought I could use my vast creative design knowledge to win. Creating a 1X8 from the 2X4 isn’t as awesome as I had thouht!

-- Jeff, South Carolina

Great work!

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

looks great

-- www.robneves.com

the photo looks awsome? how did you shoot that it looks so professional? what kind of backdrop is that, how did you light it? Well done

-- www.robneves.com

awesome…great result…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...SING WITH ME: "Sum...sum...sum...summ...summ...summ...summertime..."

A bowl from a 2×4… Never even entered my mind… Great job!

-- Chris

Nice one Tom….very cool…...did you eat the shavings salad…:)

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org