Texas Ebony Bowl

[Jim Glock]

The wood came from a cemetery in Brownsville, TX. jg

[Curt Fuller]

That's a beauty, and I like the clever way you've displayed it. Nice bowl!

[alex carey]

Great bowl and great idea, I love the color.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Jim.....beautiful bowl and the wood is stupendous! I really like the coloring in the wood! Nicely done Sir!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful bowl and some beautiful wood.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Great form on the bowl! Amazing contrast between heartwood and sapwood! Really jumps right out at you! Very nice work! I also agree with Curt - very nice arrangement in the photo!

[Jim Kountz]

Ive never seen that wood before, its amazing looking!!

Nice job!!

[Kevin Jaynes]

It looks like Persimmon bark. Often, Texas Ebony and Texas persimmon are confused with each other. In Texas we have common Persimmon, and the smaller Texas Persimmon, and they can both be black. Both the Texas Persimmon and Common Persimmon are true ebonies whether they have the black or not.

I do not know that I have ever seen a Texas Ebony here so I cannot say that you have mis-identified it. You may well be correct, but that bark sure looks like Persimmon.

That's a fantastic job on the bowl. Thumbs up!

[Steve Mawson]

Really a beauty.

[Bill Bolen]

A clever presentation for a beautiful bowl. Love the colors...Bill..

[Allen Schmid]

Jim,
That is a beauty! Along with the blank it was cut from, nice job on the presentation. Amazing what awaits to be found under the bark.
Allen

[Alan Huey]

Wow. I am always amazed at the unexpected beauty that is on the inside of some woods. This is really beautiful, and great form.
I like the way you displayed it in the photo.

[Jeff Nicol]

Jim, I looked at a site online that was selling some, but it was not cheap! It looks like it would be nice to turn!

Great bowl! All my cut outs end up in the wood stove!

Jeff

[Dewey Torres]

Sheesh... well if that aint the cat's meow! OUTSTANDING:)

[Paul Douglass]

Very nicely done.

[Neal Addy]

Great bowl and pic, Jim!

Looks like Texas Ebony to me. The color looks right and it often has a generous portion of yellow sapwood. One of my favorite woods to turn. It takes a polish like nobody's business! I used a piece as my example subject in the recent photo tutorial.

One thing Jim didn't mention is how dense the wood is. You'd have to turn it to fully appreciate what he was able to do with it. Really nice work!

[Jim Glock]

Thanks for the compliments and replies. We were attending a in-law funeral down at Brownsville, TX last year and I noticed these huge ebony trees. I asked one of the burial workers (habla english?) if they had any cut up trees and if I could have some (only a true turner would do that!). He took me to the grounds yard building and there were several full trees drying out in the back. I did bring several large sections back and only wish I would have loaded more. It is a VERY dense and heavy wood....dried, it becomes extremely hard! It polishes like marble. jim

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