Furnished content.
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The next bowl in my Christmas Bowls series—which was supposed to be finished by Christmas but at this rate looks like it will stretch into next summer. The three previous bowls can be seen here.This bowl was intended for my nephew and his wife, who are devout, so I decided to carve a Bible verse into the rim. I carved the bowl down somewhat flatter than the other bowls to make the rim big enough to accommodate the verse. The interior of the bowl is carved with a texture. Here I am working on that:
I chose a part of the famous verse from 1 Corinthians by the Apostle Paul. The letter shapes I've used are based upon the carvings on Trajan's Column in Rome, which dates from before 100 AD. Paul probably left Rome before the column was started, but maybe not, and so I imagine that perhaps he looked upon those letters before he wrote his letters to the Corinthians. Here are the letters in process:
It took quite a bit longer to carve the letters than I expected. Although they may look big, in fact many of the parts were quite thin or small and so it was pretty painstaking to carve them. (And zebrawood is a little stringy, which didn't help.)After carving I painted in the letters with gold sign paint. The bowl was then finished with butcher block conditioner (mineral oil + beeswax).