Rainy Day Maple Bowl

[Steve Schlumpf]

Rained all day today - so when is a better time to turn?

Maple with a little spalt, 9 3/4" diameter x 5" high x 3/8" lip tapering to 1/4" walls. Sanded to 400 grit with only the first flood coat of Minwax Wipe-On Gloss Poly on it at this time. Will do another flood coat and then 5 or so thin wipe-on coats to add some gloss.
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As always, your comments, opinions and critiques are welcomed!

Thanks for looking!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Steve that is a beauty. Really like the simple form and the wood looks great.

[alex carey]

while you got rain we got fires, toooo dang hot,

Great looking bowl, you seem to have an endless supply of maple.

[Alan Trout]

Steve,

Nice bowl and I really like the wood.

Alan

[Ron McKinley]

Looking good Steve. I like the placement of the pith, or actually, the just missed pith.......Ron

[Chris Rae]

Great looking bowl! Makes me hungry for popcorn.:)

[Alan Tolchinsky]

Very cool bowl. I love all the grain directions. Isn't it great when you find wood like that!

[Rob Cunningham]

Another good looking bowl Steve. I like the slight spalting and the inclusion. Hope you post pics after all the finishing is complete.

[Harvey Ghesser]

Steve,

Like Bernie said, "that is a beauty!"

[ROY DICK]

Steve,
As usual another fine turning.
Send some of that rain here please.

Roy

[Richard Madison]

Ditto what Roy said.

[Eugene Wigley]

That's another great looking bowl Steve. I really like the form and the wood. Thanks for posting it.

[Terry Achey]

Steve,

The figure is nice, but I must comliment yuo most on the photo quality. Especially like the angle of the 3rd and last photo.

Terry

[Dolan Brown]

Really nice bowls. Look very functional.

Is that a graduated background? If so - care to provide source and product description and item #?

[Tom Henry]

Great looking bowl...

[Steve Schlumpf]

Thanks for all the kind words everyone - I do appreciate it!

Dolan - I use the #39 background from this site: http://www.phototechinc.com/graduate.htm

Terry - Glad you like the photos! I still feel like a beginner both in turning and photography - so it's good to know that at least I am heading in the right direction!

[Chris Hayes]

Steve -- It's been said already but good work. You tend to make this all look so bloody easy!

[Mike Svoma]

That's a nice bowl Steve. You must have the deck finished?

Mike

[robert hainstock]

Is that what you were doing when I interupted you?
Another nice one. :D
Bob

[Steve Schlumpf]

Mike - Yes, finished the deck last Monday!!! Fun project but glad to get back to turning!

Bob - turned the bowl Friday and am still in the process of adding poly coats to it. I had a small maple hollow form on the lathe when you stopped in yesterday. Will finish the HF today but have to decide if I am going to leave it plain or embellish it in some way.

[Mike Svoma]

;) ;) ;) You know how it is Steve.........no pictures......did it really happen? LOL

Sounds great, glad to see that you are getting back to the lathe.

Mike

[Steve Schlumpf]

I would show photos but it is not turning related and I would have to move my own post to Off Topic! LOL

[Maylon Harvey]

Not if it was a bowl or hollow form that just happened to be sitting on the deck in a different location for each picture showing all sides, top and bottom of bowl.