First Bowl

Wow, that is a very nice bowl for your first one. It is always nice to leave about 3/4” extra and turn a spiggot on the bottom for chucking. If the piece is not tall enough, glue on a pices of scrap before you start and make the spiggot out of that. Then turn it away when you turn the bowl around to finish the bottom.
Very pretty grain in that wood.
Real nice job. Thanks for sharing!!

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

Very nice first bowl. You could have fooled me – it looks great. Nice choice of wood, too. It is a beautiful vessel – however, it is empty. Shouldn’t you pour some beer in there???

-- I've never seen a tree that I wouldn't like to repurpose into a project. I love the smell of wood in the morning - it smells like victory.

That is one sweet bowl. Great job.

-- -Zeke- "I hate to rush off, but I gotta go see a man about a log"

Thanks for the advice, Jim. I have lots of scrap wood to play with and will give it a go. I need to look at some more examples of how to hold bowl bottoms to the lathe to allow for finishing without leaving a trace of the lathe. I have seen some you-tube videos out there as well as v-blogs on LJ’s. Need to study some more.

-- GSY from N. Idaho

1st bowl? Wow! That is just Great.
Looks Fanastic! Thanks for sharing.

-- Robert B. Sabina, Ohio..... http://www.etsy.com/shop/WoodenfrogWoodenProd

For a first bowl its a bute! Good job!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Great looking first bowl. Brave also to use a great looking piece of wood, for your first one. My first one I made was cherry it messed up bad. The grain is fanstastic.

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

who looks at bowl bottoms? Seems everyone. At shows people look constantly. I have wondered too..I think they think it shows they “know” bowls..like sniffing a wine cork? :-) :-) But it does show good skill to have no chucking evidence on the bottom. Some choose tenons, & I prefer an inset..I decorate it & put an insert with my name/wood etc. If I ever need to rechuck the bowl I can. Personal choice…this is a nifty first..keep sharing your progress

Great first turning, I don’t think any of us produce a piccasso on our first, but yours is close. I love the spalting left over, it gives it character and finish, looks great, keep up the great work.

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Hey ,that’s a good looking bowl for first turning,practice makes perfect,I am still learning .Keep up the great work.

-- In His service ,Richard