recently finished bowl #15

[calabrese55]

White ash, bloodwood, cherry, black veneer and some glue.

diameter 11.5 height x 6.5 tall 234 pieces.

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[Gerald]

Great looking piece. That inset bottom looks great.

[calabrese55]

Thanks Gerald for looking in.

It was a lot of work off and on for about 3 weeks but it was fun to work on.

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[lew]

Beautiful!  Agree with @Gerald on the bottom insert.

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Thanks Lew and everyone for looking in always to hear from everyone 

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[Cal]

Beautiful bowl Mike.  Tell me about the bottom signature and stuff.  Is it two rings that you done on the lathe and then sharpied in the name, date & wood species or do you use a CNC machine, or ?

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58 minutes ago, Cal said:

Beautiful bowl Mike.  Tell me about the bottom signature and stuff.  Is it two rings that you done on the lathe and then sharpied in the name, date & wood species or do you use a CNC machine, or ?

Hello Cal

Thanks for your comment and question.

Believe it or not the black rings are simply done with a ball point pen and the lathe on slow speed.

Normally the two circles are just pen ink but in this case the bic pen didn't want to make a clean line I guess because of the different wood density. 

to fix that i switched to a sharpie to fill it in. The finish is several coats of Minwax wipe on poly and doesn't bother the ink. 

Ask any questions and thanks for looking in.

mike c

[Steve Krumanaker]

Really nice work there!

[HandyDan]

Nicely done.  Cool design.

[calabrese55]

HandyDan   Steve Krumanaker

 

Thanks gents for looking in and your comments

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