Live- Edge, Live-Oak Bowl

Very nice bowl, I really like the natural edge.

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Do you have a picture of the wood BEFORE turning? I’m always interested to see how accomplished turners look at a hunk of wood and know it’s going to have a great piece inside it somewhere…

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Lovely bowl and great finish, a job well done in my eyes.

Woody.

-- Woody, UK

Wow! Nice figure and a great bowl.

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Very nice! Indeed!

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sweet. I like how there doesn’t seem to be a bottom edge to it.. it just kind of melts into the bottom.

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Outstanding!!! Never seen an edge like this before, very impressed.

-- Dan Wiggins

That is really a work of art!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Brian that is a beautiful turning…Great job!

-- Martin, Kansas

Whoa!!!! Dude, that is really nice!!!!

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Very nice turning. I know what you mean about that live edge and fingers. Did you return it after drying it or just sand and finish? You should be extremely proud. Thanks for sharing Brian.

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Unbelievably nice… great craftsmanship.

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that is great !!! wonderful workmanship and great piece of wood !

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sweet piece of wood

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Brian, that is just amazing

Thanks for the post

If I may ask, what is the “alcohol soaking” method

-- Norm (AKA - The Maddhatter), Middletown DE

Thanks for all the support!

Follow up to queries:

[Quint] I do not have a before picture of the actual wood before turning it, but I do still have the other half of the log. Generally, to make a bowl from a log, the log is split in half. Each half of the log can be used to make a bowl. For a regular bowl, the bottom of the bowl faces the bark side, and the rim of the bowl faces the cut side. For a live-edge bowl, the half log is flipped so that the bottom of the bowl is on the cut side, and the rim is on the bark side. So the wood in the photo is resting the same way as the bowl. I chose to go with the live edge orientation because a lot of the interesting figure in this wood was near the center, and would be cut away for a regular bowl.

[trifern] I rough turn the log while it is green (or semi-green), soak and dry, and then re-turn the blank to final shape. This is necessary since there will be some distortion during drying. ...Although, I have heard of turners taking advantage of this distortion during drying for certain effects.

[Maddhatter] Soaking a blank in alcohol significantly speeds up the drying of green wood. I have been experimenting with this and have had relatively good success so far, Although I may have not left enough thickness on a recent blank made from Pearwood.

Here are some links to post/articles by turners using this process:
http://www.woodcentral.com/articles/turning/articles473.shtml
http://alcoholsoaking.blogspot.com/20051201archive.html

and here are some links regarding the chemistry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscibility

Also, try Googling for “alcohol soaking” and “alcohol drying”

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I’m speechless. Wonderful work!!

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Wow! The work of art!