Project Information
This is my first carved bowl. It was made from a piece of air dried walnut that was about 2 1/4" thick after I planed it. I used all hand tools including an axe, an adze, several gouges, a draw knife and a couple spokeshaves. I was pretty happy with the result, but there is a small hair line crack on one of the sides that appeared as I was removing the end grain with my axe. I filled it with glue and am hoping that it remains small. I sanded the exterior but left a tooled finish on the inside. I really like the texture. The finish is food grade flax seed oil. I'm not sure of the exact dimensions, but you can get an idea from the lemon I used to show scale. It took me about 20 hours to complete.