My first bowl...

tgamel · Post by **tgamel** » Sat May 26, 2012 8:07 am

Wow, love the color, the only thing I ever turned was a set of salt and pepper shakers back in wood shop in Junior High. I twas pretty basic stuff and if I remember correctly, it was not exactly pretty, but hey that was more than 30 years ago. Looking forward to trying to learn the basic all over once I get my Mark V.

Todd

swampgator · Post by **swampgator** » Sun May 27, 2012 12:01 am

Opinions wanted? Absolutely beautiful -- work, color and grain.

myoung44708 · Post by **myoung44708** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:28 pm

Thank you all.

Since this thread, I've traveled to the dark side...literally...and turned two more bowls. A cherry wood "crock" style with thick walls and a wenge bowl in the same form as the paduak. Quite frankly, the wenge bowl is beautiful.

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SWMBO says I have a knack with these things...who am I to argue with her...

eagleta2 · Post by **eagleta2** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:57 pm

Very nicely done....I'm inspired by your work. I really like the cherry one! Your wife is spot on...you do have a knack for them!

I'd love to try one myself but I have always been intimidated by the cost of the blank... which is why I've often thought of doing a segmented bowl.

If you don't mind my asking... how much $ do you have invested in each of the 3 bowls?

Thanks!
Geo

myoung44708 · Post by **myoung44708** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:03 am

I have $25 in both the cherry and paduak and $35 in the wenge. I guess they were a bit pricey at the time, but the result justifies the expense. I have another paduak blank yet to turn and some of the 30,000 year old stuff...whose name escapes me at the moment.

I'm thinking small finger bowl for the old stuff...

terrydowning · Post by **terrydowning** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:26 am

Nicely turned and finished. Good job!!!

Turning is very satisfying IMHO and my favorite use for my SS.

wa2crk · Post by **wa2crk** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:52 pm

You have wood from a Joshua Tree?
Bill V

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:41 pm

Maybe the really old wood is "Kauri" from New Zealand?

Those are really fine bowls!

myoung44708 · Post by **myoung44708** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:36 pm

Ah! Kauri!

That is the name of the stuff..

Funny, I bought it at Heartville Hardware here in NE Ohio. The pladce is run by Menonites who believe the earth is only 6,000 or so years old. I told the clerk that the little sticker told the story if the wood and the age of it...and if the sticker was a lie to them, then why was the wood so damn much?

He had no reply...but he did take my money.

fjimp · Post by **fjimp** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:08 pm

myoung44708 wrote:Ah! Kauri!

That is the name of the stuff..

Funny, I bought it at Heartville Hardware here in NE Ohio. The pladce is run by Menonites who believe the earth is only 6,000 or so years old. I told the clerk that the little sticker told the story if the wood and the age of it...and if the sticker was a lie to them, then why was the wood so damn much?

He had no reply...but he did take my money.

I do not wish to seem negative or angry however as a Mennonite myself feel a bit as though your impression may be painting either the wrong people or an entire religious group as uneducated. Most of the Mennonites I know are better educated and informed than any other single group of people. Again I have no desire to insult you yet would prefer you use a bit of care in whom or how you represent others. Jim