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I blogged the background story to this project. This is my submission for the Winter 2×4 Challenge. This is a Bowl from a 2×4. This method of construction is a staple of the salad bowl industry. If you google bowl from a board, you can take a look at a few other methods of contsruction!
Well, Mr. 2×4, thanks for giving me a great 4 nights in the shop, some anxiety, a great challenge, and a neat project from some wood that was bound for the dump!
Thanks for looking!
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34 comments so far
USCJeff
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posted 665 days ago
You should be in the hunt for the challenge. Wow.
-- Jeff, South Carolina
Karson
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posted 665 days ago
Great Tom
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GaryK
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posted 665 days ago
Pretty cool Tom. Great entry!
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Marge
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posted 665 days ago
Amazing
-- Marge, Colorado
gizmodyne
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posted 665 days ago
Fancy! Great job and very creative.
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cajunpen
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posted 665 days ago
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/
Dadoo
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posted 665 days ago
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!
rikkor
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posted 665 days ago
Very nice execution. You should do well.
YorkshireStewart
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posted 665 days ago
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.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 665 days ago
awesome!!!
a big challenge and you met it with flying colours.
Well done.
from long and rectangular to round and .. round… cool
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furnitologist
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posted 665 days ago
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.
miles125
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posted 665 days ago
Nice looking bowl Mot!
-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""
Colin
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posted 665 days ago
very creative, it never ceases to amaze me what can be done with a 4 by 2, nice bowl!
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Bob A in NJ
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posted 665 days ago
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
dalec
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posted 665 days ago
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
mot
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posted 665 days ago
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!
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TomFran
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posted 665 days ago
Nice going, Mot! You are good!
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SPalm
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posted 665 days ago
Good job, thinking outside the board.
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DocK16
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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
David
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posted 665 days ago
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
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DAN
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posted 665 days ago
very nice …
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 665 days ago
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 !!
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Blake
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posted 665 days ago
Very cool, Mot. It “turned” out nicely!
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USCJeff
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posted 665 days ago
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
Les Hastings
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posted 664 days ago
Great work!
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romansfivefive
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posted 664 days ago
looks great
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romansfivefive
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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
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Napaman
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awesome…great result…
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Chris
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A bowl from a 2×4… Never even entered my mind… Great job!
-- Chris
Bob Babcock
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posted 662 days ago
Nice one Tom….very cool…...did you eat the shavings salad…:)
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Beginningwoodworker
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Tom that is so cool!
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wiswood2
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posted 331 days ago
looking good
chuck
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jim1953
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Nice bowl
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Dustmite97
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This is a very nice bowl. I read your blog about how you made it. It looked like it took a lot of skill and patience.
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