Acacia branch

[woodfarmer]

cut down early summer last year. ripped into blanks with my Ikra electric chainsaw, then "turned".

 

[gregmcateer]

Can't fault the workmanship and finish.

And at risk of offending, (as you haven't requested C&C and I couldn't do anything half as good), I think the outside shape is not quite 'right'. I thknk you could improve it by making the shape more of a continuous curve, rather than partly straight-looking with quite noticeable direction changes.

Hope that makes sense and doesn't offend.

Greg

 

[Castanea]

I looked at the outside and wasn't sure then saw the inside photo and thought "wow - that looks fab". Whatever your preference for outside shape though you've done a lovely job of making the wood look beautiful.

 

[minimad]

The bowl looks great, and the inside is spot on ! and seeing the piece of wood before hand all ways fascinates me to see what comes out of it !

 

[woodfarmer]

Actually I made a mistake, the blank shown above made this bowl, not the one above. The following all came from the same branch and the bigger ones are 8-10 inches diameter. The smaller pieces are from coring the blanks.

Holey bowl, (hole made by the little stub branch curling around).

Simple deeper bowl

 

[woodfarmer]

continuation post

simple bowl from above

cored small curved bowl from above

side view

small cored flat top

A use found for very small cores