More walnut than I thought.

I met up with an old friend from my neighborhood on Facebook. She want’s me to turn her a walnut bowl like the one her grandmother had because she has that one and her sister doesn’t have. She want’s me to turn one so she can give it to her sister.
After seeing her grandmothers bowl, I noticed it was a glue-up that was turned. So after visiting my wood guy and getting a very nice, if somewhat irregular shaped hunk of walnut, I decided to go ahead and glue up a 12×12x3 piece and just turn that.
Well, I was very surprised to see just how much wood it took to get me to a 12×12x3 hunk of walnut. I had a 11”x7’ piece of 5/4 and it’s pretty much gone now.
I’m glad I got my sharpening system working, I’m gonna need it to turn this walnut. It’s a bit dry.

Can you believe it took an entire 7’x11” board to get a 12×12x3 hunk of wood?

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.