Sunday 24 August 2014

Project #5 - Natural Edge Firewood Bowl (Part 2)

After shaping the outside in Part 1, I flipped the bowl around, and started working on hollowing out the inside of the bowl.
Bowl ready for the inside to be hollowed out

I shaped the bottom of the stand of the bowl with a slight upward shape, so that the bowl effectively sits on the rim of the stand.
You can see the slight indentation on the bottom
From the bottom of the bowl, you can see the nice grain of the wood
The bottom of the finished bowl
The bowl is almost finished. Just needs some final sanding and varnishing
The firewood bowl almost finished
You can see the bark from the log around the rim of the bowl. The darker bark provides a nice contrast against the lighter wood of the bowl.

Sunday 17 August 2014

Project #5 - Natural Edge Firewood Bowl (Part 1)

I had seen an interesting style of bowl recently, and I thought I would give it a try. It required that the piece of wood that I use must still have its bark.

I found a piece of wood in our stack of firewood, so I am not sure what type of wood it was. It came from a tree in our garden somewhere that we had trimmed back a while ago.
The piece of firewood that I selected
In the picture above, you can see the patch where I have removed a strip of the bark. I had to trim the wood down in size a little, and then mount it on the lathe.

Piece of wood mounted on the lathe

I turned the outside shape first.
The bowl is starting to take shape