A very good friend of mine heard a fellow employee was removing this tree from his yard. He was able to obtain ome very nice pieces of the trunk. Tulip Poplar is not the most exciting wood until you let Mother Nature have a bit of time before you turn the bowl.
This bowl too came from the neighborhood and is the very top of the trunk where the first branches breakout. To date it is one of the tallest I have created. One of my best customers at the Farmers Market purchased it for her sister for a Christmas Gift. The bowl now resides in Wisconsin. Now that is a nice Sister!
The beauty of living in a well wooded 30 year old neighborhood that was developed in the 80’s is that you now have allot of Bradford Pear Trees beginning to split and are being removed and replaced. Again this is one bowl from a very mature tree from the neighborhood. The brown line is Bark enclusion.
As mentioned, this is the sister to #319. If you compare the two bowls there coloring is slightly different. This is from one side of the tree being exposed to harsher weather as the tree slowly died.
This bowl and #320 are sisters, or opposite sides of the same tree. They are about 16 inches in diameter and shallow. I remember being very excited about having them for sale in my booth and was wonderfully taken aback when a very nice lady came up and said “Hi, I will take them both”. They came from a tree that was removed from one of the medical buildings near the Glenridge Connector.
This is a nice Yoshin Cherry bowl that came from a neighbors tree. This bowl was given to the neighbor as a thank you for the wood.
This was my first attempt at a Mortor and Pestle.
This bowl is from the Maple tree in my yard that had about a years time laying around waiting to become firewood until I learned to turn. The black lines are from bacteria that has started to naturally break down the wood and help it decompose. Catch the decay early and you have a naturalwork of art. About 11 inches wide.
This is a nice thick walled dish about 10 inches wide that now resides in Saddy Daisy, TN.
I was heart broken! The bowl I was really excited about cracked in three places. I knew I had to learn fast how to stop this horrible cancer. The majorty of answers was to “Shim or Fill” the crack. I did not clearly understand but I painstakingly cut out the cracks to make them V’s and then made V’s of ebony, fitted and glued. I then remounted the bowl on the lathe and returned it. I am still very excited about this bowl! About 5 inches in diameter and 3 inches or so high. Th bowl is now named “Fang”.