Burr Elm bowl

[penman]

Hi folks

Have at last managed to get into the shed, after all the snow and frost. \/

It is a piece of Burr Elm kindly donated by Oakbear (Thanks Ryan)
Approx 4" at the widest by 2 1/2" high finished in danish oil. The finish is not as good as I hoped but by the time I got to finishing it my fingers were nearly frozen :lol: :lol:
Hope you like and any comments greatly appreciated.

Malcolm

 

[Steve Jones]

Very nice Malcolm, I like that a lot.

Regards

Steve

 

[Ad de Crom]

Beautiful work Malcolm. The cold winter takes too long for us woodturners.
Ad

 

[johnny.t.]

Don't know about frozen fingers Malcolm that looks more like a finger shredder!! :lol:
Nice piece of timber and you've turned it into an interesting piece.

JT

 

[wizer]

Hi Malcolm

The timber is really nice but the form doesn't really do it for me. The harsh square base is probably what is turning me off. I think it would have been nice to either make it more rounded or make the base much slimmer.

Just my opinion and what do I know?

 

[penman]

Thanks for the comments guys, Tom the reason for the shape is that is roughly the shape of the blank it was a wedge to start with.

Malcolm

 

[Paul.J]

Lovely looking piece of timber Malcolm,and made good use of

 

[loz]

Very nice Malcolm !

I posted a Burr Elm Box a while back, very very similar shape to this but with a lid ! - got same comments about the base etc, and I also was constrained by a wedge shaped blank !

would be nice to get bigger pieces to play with !

Was it very dusty/crumbly to work with ?

All the best

Loz

 

[hog&bodge]

Shape colour style with the nat edge all works for me..
Could do with members taking pics and posting their
lumps of wood with the finished article..just a thought

My shed stinks of danish oil...was using some on bowl forgot to put
lid back on..yep all over the shed floor :lol:
at least one area of the floor looks great though :lol: