The Woodshop Shed

Silver Maple Bowl - OR - The First Thing I've Made Since Last May

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I, like many others I suppose, have found it hard to be inspired this year.I was inspired by my driveway woodpile. More to the point, I was inspired by the bug sign that I'd noticed building up around my logs. So, a couple weeks ago, I fired up the chainsaw and went to work making little tiny pieces of wood out of great big pieces of wood so they'd fit in the barrel for disposal. The first couple of logs I decimated were too cracked, punky, and eaten alive to be of any use. It's all, however, wonderfully spalted. Then, this past Thursday, I continued the process. This time, I found some sound wood that could be useful. This piece is from one of those chunks.There was some punkiness, but I addressed that with some sanding and sealed it with shellac (I seem to have run out of shellac. I know I have a can of it here, somewhere. Do you know where I left it? It's probably hanging out with my missing burnishing wires). I left the wormholes au natural, and I only almost broke it when I was removing it from the chuck, having misremembered that I'd mounted it in a recess and turned the handle the wrong way. No harm, no foul. Speaking of the recess:You may have noticed the bulge in the middle of the recess.That's my way of trying to make a chuck recess look like something other than a chuck recess. In this case, I failed to notice that the bulge slightly exceeds the depth of the recess channel. So this bowl is a special bowl. It's a top bowl. Sitting on a hard surface, it spins like a top.After the shellac sealing, I finished it with YG and three coats of HS. The size is 6-1/2 X 3-1/4.I'll try to get motivated with some of the other chunks.

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