Don't know quite what to call this

Beautiful wood. If it were me, I would fill the voids. However, your wife’s opinion would probably mean more :-)

-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.

Call it what you want but it is beautiful!
great idea. Pass the bread!!

i like the last one, except i like fried chicken, so stack it up and ill be right on over…lol…..nice wooden ware…

-- GRIZZMAN ...[''''']

nice candy dish!

I’d call it a beautiful juniper centerpiece!

Nice piece of wood!!

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

I’d use it as a fruit bowl! A cornucopia of the season’s crisp, sweet apples, pears, persimmons, pomegranates, nuts, etc..

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I agree with Monte and MMH, fill the voids and make it a fruit bowl; or go with whatever the wife decides.

-- A posse ad esse

Nice trough, platter, bowl…
My first impression was that it looked like a big steak!
I like it. Love the wood. I don’t have any juniper yet.

Platter/ bowl with hole. :)) great looking wood.

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I call it BEAUTIFUL!!
I’d fill the voids with stone or sand!!
Very pretty!!!

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Too shallow for a bowl and too tall for a platter? We call those in-between projects Blatters. Got a few myself turned on the lathe.

-Dave

-- I'm not old. Just "well seasoned".

Beautilful, but I think it looks like a piece of BACON

Beautiful as is. I’d leave it alone and use it for anything that you would want.

This is one of those projects that just cant be pigeon-holed/labeled. Great find and imagination with this!!

-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!

I dont know about putting fruit on it. The intense cedar smell from juniper would put off the fruit. I milled some juniper from my yard for a box and the odor from the unfinished wood is nearly overwhelming. I like it but it is intense. Like cedar on steroids.
A center piece with a flower arrangement in it would be very cool.

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Ted,

What a wonderful vessel you have gifted to your wife.

Your imagination has obviously pleased your wife and she has graced your table with her creativity and that is a blessing which requires no label.

Very nicely done.

Work Safely and have Fun. – Grandpa Len

-- Mother Nature should be proud of what you've done with her tree. - Len ...just north of a stone's throw from the oHIo, river that is, in So. Indiana.