Matrimony Bowl

cool design!

-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!

Beautiful piece! The Callery Pear wood has some remarkable qualities and you kow how to make them shine. Now is the guy the sapwood or the heartwood, I guess it depends on the couple.

-- Flaws are only in the eye of the artisan!

Really beautiful work.

You are absolutely correct, that does sound corny!!!!!!!!!!!
However, nice winged bowl.

-- "Fine Woodworking" is the name given to a project that takes 3 times longer than normal to finish because you used hand tools instead of power tools. ----Mike, Waukesha, WI

Lovely flow to it Brian, that timber is not known down our way – pity :))

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

Great looking bowl, as well as an excellent job of showing off that piece of pear wood.

What finishing regimen did you use on this piece?

-- Jonathan, Denver, CO "Constructive criticism is welcome and valued as it gives me new perspectives and helps me to advance as a woodworker."

Is she the heart and you the sap? Really cool bowl though.

-- gbear, Carmichael, CA

Sweet! Could not have captured it myself any better!
See the above comment! LOL

-- Folly ever comes cloaked in opportunity!

I like this piece very much….. you did a great job on it. I have a small winged bowl that is similar, but I have a lid on it…... I use it to keep my wedding band in while at work two days a week. This kind of use may be of interest to you and yours.

-- Brian, Ontario Canada,

Beautiful bowl. Nice flowing lines.

Awesome bowl! Nice.

gbear, That is exactly what I thought after 41 yrs; she is the heart and I am the sap ;-)

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Cute reading of the bowl. Like the shape and design.

-- Mike, Missouri --- “A positive life can not happen with a negative mind.” ---

I like the bowl. I like your analogy, and yes it is kinda corny, but it does fit.

Did you turn the wood green?
I have turned some pear that had more water than I could beleive. I have no experience with Callery Pear, but I like the way it looks.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some scientist somewhere proved that fruit tree wood caries more water than a comparable sized bucket.

-- Mel,

And to add to your description: It will take your head off if you don’t watch how you work with it. Very nice design and execution!

-- Andrew, Orange County, CA - www.TransitionTurning.com