Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
From firewood to an accent bowl….that's what this is.Actually, it's a 26” x 9” bowl made out of pine beetle kill that surprised the heck out of me with the grain. Not only was there blue stain from beetle secretions, but there was also brown streaks that I have no idea what the heck caused them!The bowl was carved mostly using an Arbortech Mini TURBO Planer to rough out the shape followed by their contour sanding disc that also attached to the planer followed by a random orbital sander followed by a whole bunch of hand sanding until I got it down to 400 grit.I was originally going to have a friend who is a professional painter paint the bowl a deep red as an experiment. Problem is the red covered the grain colors, and that's not something I wanted in the finished product.Long story short, it needs one more coat of MinWax gloss hand rubbed poly followed by a coat of beeswax, so I hope I haven't jumped the gun, so to speak, by posting it now before it's actually 'finished'. The finish is actually still slightly tacky, hence the triangle cardboard stands holding it up.The finish is Watco Danish Oil 'Natural' followed by multiple coats of the MinWax with light sanding in between coats followed by that proverbial beeswax.Feedback welcome and TIA.TZH