Natural Back Display Bowl
Elm Burl.
9″ wide x 8.5″ tall x 4″ deep. Bowl is 6″ diameter x 1.25″ deep.
Cherry Burl Bowl
About 8″ diameter, 2.75″ high. Round bottom (no foot, just a little dimple so it sits upright).
Simple walnut oil finish.
A few pewa (maple) to stabilize a crack, and some epoxy fill in the cracks just to make the bowl more usable, since the cracks went all the way through.
Maple Bowl
About. 11″ diameter, 3″ high. Had some small cracks and a couple bug tracks which I filled with red epoxy. Finished with walnut oil.
Elm Bowl
Elm salad bowl with beaded rim.
About 10″ diameter, 3″ high.
Finished simply with walnut oil.
Ash Calabash
Calabash bowl from an ash crotch. Walnut pewa joining some cracks. No foot, just a little dimple. Some great figure in this piece. About 7″ diameter, 3-1/2″ tall. Walnut oil finish.
Cracked Ash Dish
Ash Dish, about 9″ dia x 1.5″ high. Cracks repaired with Walnut Pewa & Epoxy. Finish is Walnut Oil.
Mulberry Bowls
Earlier this year, a limb broke off a Mulberry tree in Mom’s yard, and she saved a couple pieces for me. My sons got a couple of these bowls for Christmas – this was a tree they both played at – there was almost always a rope swing hanging there.
These bowls range from about 3″ to about 7″ diameter.
The black staining was in the log – from water getting into cracks in the wood while it was still on the tree. I did fill a few cracks with black epoxy. Finish is walnut oil.
In the image with several bowls, two have darker color (upper right and the natural-edge one). These were turned about a month before the others, so have had that much longer to darken (which is natural with mulberry).
Big Leaf Maple Burl Bowl
This natural-edge bowl from a Big Leaf Maple Burl is about 8-3/4″ diameter and 2-1/2″ high.
The walls of the bowl are almost 1/2″ thick, to show off the natural burl surface.
