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

diameter 11.5 height x 6.5 tall 234 pieces.

calabrese55

Great looking piece. That inset bottom looks great.

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.

calabrese55 

Beautiful!  Agree with @Gerald on the bottom insert.

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

calabrese55

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 ?

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

Really nice work there!

Nicely done.  Cool design.

HandyDan   Steve Krumanaker

 

Thanks gents for looking in and your comments

calabrese55