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These a couple of bowls that I was goofing around with different shapes. They are from some maple branches I picked up in the 2011 wind storm that killed a guy when the tree crushed his garage with him in it. The first one is a 4 1/4" x 1 1/2" recurve edge bowl. A little of the bark remained on the edges and it was not quite centered.

The second bowl started out as a natural edge bowl but the bark left in a hurry. It is maple and 5 1//2" x 2 1/2". I finished turning the shape and the ends ,where the bark was, were real thin and started breaking out, so I did a little carving on them to make the broken out areas symmetrical and flared out a bit. After it was turned and bottom cleaned up, I discovered all these light lines and probed them to find that they were soft dust trails of the bugs that were eating this tree. I could not fill and re-turn the bowl so I cleaned out all the grooves before final finishing. The last shot of the bottom groove shows it goes clear through the bowl in 2 places.

They are both finished with clear matte spray!...........

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Nice piece of turning Jim, like the shapes, especially where you carved. Great finish on both.
 

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You're doing a really nice job on these. I like it when people don't stick to traditional design.
 

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Cool design very nice goofing around.
 

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Monte, my wife always says I'm abby normal!
 

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Neat shapes. Nice finish too.
 

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That Jim is the standard of turning that I hope to one day achieve. Beautiful results.
 

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Really nice Work! cool!
 

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As always another nice result .
I would get a worm and epoxy him in the hole .
 

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Good looking bowls Jim!!

Thanks for sharing
 

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You do very well with "Going with the flow". It sometimes pushes into different areas. You did very well with both of these.
 

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COOL "goofing around"... LOL

Nice work!

Thank you.
 

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Wow, a sad story as to the tree itself Jim, you have made a great job on both these, don't ya just love it when you cut into the little critters hiddy holes :)
Pete
 

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Nice work Jim. very creative.
 

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Nice work and the shapes are cool.
 

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Pretty awesome experiments Jim. Very nice
 

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Little bizare story but very nice bowls.
 

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Beautiful work and craftsmanship.
 

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I really like the way you adapt when the wood changes the plan-it's a skill not easily mastered. I hope to get there some day . . .
 

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Very Nice Project Indeed! Well Done!

Rick
 
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