Project #5 - Natural Edge Firewood Bowl Completed

This was what the bowl looked like before final sanding and varnishing.

The firewood bowl almost finished

  After varnishing... the finished product!

The varnished natural edge firewood bowl

 You can see the grain has shown up nicely with the varnish

Underside of the natural edge firewood bowl, showing the grain of the wood

Project #3 - Calabash bowl from Blue Gum log (Part 3)

After doing some further hollowing out of the bowl and some sanding, this is what the piece now looks like.

The inside of the bowl, showing the knots

The outside of the bowl

The drying cracks

Some more drying cracks

I am still deciding on how to deal with the cracks, whether to leave them, or fill them in with something.