Fairly Useless Platter

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Or maybe it’s a shallow bowl. Either way, it won’t hold soup.

Cherry burl with large bark inclusions wenge pewa) and some bug tracks. Quite a mess. This was the outer core from around the bowl I posted earlier.

About 12″ diameter, 2-1/4″ tall.

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Cherry Burl Bowl

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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.

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Sliced Hollow Form, 5" dia, 6" tall, Cherry?, Walnut Pewa, Lacquer, black paint interior

Sliced Hollow Form

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Hollow Form, about 5″ diameter and 6″ tall.

Sliced apart and reassembled with Walnut Pewa. I made two slices at different orientations to yield an opening that flows between wide and narrow.

Pretty sure this was Cherry. Exterior finish is Lacquer, interior painted black.

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