Leo Van Der Loo
03-17-2009, 8:25 PM
Found this piece of crotch while digging in the shavings a little while ago, it comes from the Manitoba Maple that got blown down last August behind my place,and this piece was bagged and got buried and forgotten.
Not a very big piece and nothing really spectacular, still something to work with and so I mounted it and turned a small tenon on it and rounded the outside, turned it over and flattened the top, looking at the wood with all the small checks and lines from the pith plus a few reddish-pink lines, it looked like all that was nice in the wood would be gone if making just another bowl from it.
Scratching my head I thought I should keep all that, so all checks were filled with CA and I found a glass bowl to fit a tea-light candle that might look OK in there, so thats what I did.
Done with the top I remounted it (vacuum) and removed most of the lower part of the previously turned bottom and gave it a foot to sit on, with the outside edge just a hair off of the surface, so this is the outcome :)
It is about 9½" long and a 1¼" high.
All comments welcome :D
Not a very big piece and nothing really spectacular, still something to work with and so I mounted it and turned a small tenon on it and rounded the outside, turned it over and flattened the top, looking at the wood with all the small checks and lines from the pith plus a few reddish-pink lines, it looked like all that was nice in the wood would be gone if making just another bowl from it.
Scratching my head I thought I should keep all that, so all checks were filled with CA and I found a glass bowl to fit a tea-light candle that might look OK in there, so thats what I did.
Done with the top I remounted it (vacuum) and removed most of the lower part of the previously turned bottom and gave it a foot to sit on, with the outside edge just a hair off of the surface, so this is the outcome :)
It is about 9½" long and a 1¼" high.
All comments welcome :D