Fairly Useless Platter

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.

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.

Sliced Hollow Form

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.