A year or so ago I turned a really crappy bowl out of an equally nasty piece of willow. It was so ugly and so poorly turned, I decided to use it to practice dying wood. Since the wood and the turning was bad, the dye job turned out absolutely horrendous! My daughter Courtney asked if she could wood burn on it, and I said yes, hoping she would just burn the evidence. What she was able to make out of my mistake actually turned out looking pretty cool!