5 beech bowls

[George Watkins]

Hello folks

here are 5 ordinary bowls I've finished recently

they are all beech and they are all from the same woodland which is about 5 miles from my shop- they were all stored in the same way but look how differently they've spalted- strange eh!?!?

there all about 12" in diameter


p.s in the group pic there's a oak bowl as well

 

[PaulDoug]

very nice! great turning

 

[wood-of-1kind]

All stunning in their "simplicity". Great work!!!!

 

[Andrew_K99]

All stunning in their "simplicity". Great work!!!!

I agree! The grain is great in those pieces!

AK

 

[Mark]

I really like the last one, the best. Very nice looking work.

 

[bench1holio]

nice lot george!

do you turn them green and let them spalt, or leave in log form to spalt

before turning?

 

[George Watkins]

Hi Ben

I let them spalt in the log

 

[Russell Eaton]

George those are some great looking bowls. Thanks for showing.

 

[PaulDoug]

I came back to this thread to look at the pretty bowls again and it got me wondering, are turners the only ones that love rotting wood? Even enough to make it rot!

 

[Fred]

George, you have a very spectacular gathering of bowls there. I do believe you have done quite well.

 

[bitshird]

Nicely done, great pieces where form and function follow clean lines.

 

[George Watkins]

thank you for all of your kind comments

 

[RichAldrich]

very nice work

 

[robutacion]

I will be damn...!

How did you manage to those first couple of bowls soooooo dark...????

Is that spalting or something happening in there...???

Great stuff mate, those are some very useful and heavy duty bowls in any kitchen, particularly with kids around...!

At first I though, goodness me, George can't count as I could see 6 bowls in there but, after I finish reading the post I realize that, you can count, after all...!!!:wink::biggrin:

Keep those shavings building, mate...!

Cheers
George

 

[George Watkins]

thank you

I'm really not sure how it happened George- the dark bowls may be from a different tree but they are all definitely from the same woodland. I store the beech on pallets inside an open air enclosure for 18-24 months to spalt, when i start working on a batch that's ready i will have two logs next to each other- one has not spalted but gone punky the other is full on spalted and stunning!!!! I've given up trying to figure it out

 

[patmurris]

Beautiful spalting! I wish all my wood would rot like that!