Ash “calabash” like bowl

Some time ago (late 2013?) I scored a bunch of wood and rough turned a bunch of bowl blanks.  After a couple years of air drying, the bowl blanks are ready for the final turning.  The good news, is I have ample projects just waiting to be completed.  The bad news is that three years ago, I was really only seeing one style of bowl in my head when I did the rough outs, so I’m going to get a whole lot of the same style of bowl as a finished product.  20 or so…  Makes it kind of boring after awhile.

The first one was from a piece of ash wood, which is more of the tree that was taken down by the mother of one of my daughter’s friends.  Not a whole lot of interesting grain to look at, but it turned out well enough to avoid the labor day wiener roast fire.

Bowl made from Ash, about 9″ across. Pretty plain looking, but it’s very functional and was actually harder than it looks to make the inside curve match the outside curve.

 

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