Maple Leaf Bowls

[Keith Burns]

These are definately out of my comfort zone. Started buy turning a few shallow ogee shape bowls and then using my powercrafter piercing tool to cut out the leafs. All are about 5" dia. and died with akaline dyes. Clockwise from top left, Rocky Mountain Maple, Red Maple, Sugar Maple and Vine Maple. All turned from box elder. Nothing original here but it was a step out to take a perfectly good bowl and cut it apart. All comments/critiques are welcome.

[Jeff Morneault]

Keith, those are awesome and a great idea. Really like the dark edge, thanks for sharing!

[John Keeton]

Keith, those are one of the neatest ideas I have seen in a long time!! Did you mix the colors, and would you care to share that info?

This is on my list as soon as I can get my skill level to this point. Did you happen to take a pic of the bowl before the surgery?

[Toney Robertson]

Keith,

Those are very cool.

I am generally a die is heresy person but with this it fits.

Great job. You say it is not original but I have not seen anything like it.

I bet they were a pain to do.


Toney

[Dennis Ford]

I really like those, you did a great job with both the concept and the final product. These are on my list to attempt a copy.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Keith - that is really cool! I haven't seen anything like it before! The color really works with these pieces! Great job on getting the bowls so thin! Very nice work!

[ROY DICK]

Keith,
Great thinking out of the bowl.
Very nice.

Roy

[Jim Kountz]

Wow this is new to me, I have never seen anything quite like these!! Fantastic!!

[Baxter Smith]

Very very cool!

[Rob Cunningham]

They're really cool. Great idea.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Beautiful and unusual Keith!

Are the edges burned or dyed?

[kevin loftus]

"WOW", incredible piece(s) of work Keith, I wonder, how
long does it take you to complete one? :cool:

[Bob Bergstrom]

Nice job stepping outside of your comfort zone. It will help us all explore new and creative ideas and techniques.

[Ted Calver]

Beautiful!! Very creative!! Who needs comfort zone.

[Bill Bolen]

Unique, creative, very imaginative and just beautiful. Ran out of adjetives for these gret pieces...Bill..

[alex carey]

wow that is very cool, looks like a lot of work to.

[Jeff Nicol]

I really like them and I will say that I will definitley make some real soon! I sold $900 worth of stuff this last weekend at the new gallery location and I am just tickled! I will need some new stuff to fill the shelves.

Thanks for the inspiration,

Jeff

[Bernie Weishapl]

Wow Keith those are just to cool. Really nice.

[steven carter]

B...E...A..utiful! Great imagination and execution. It is great when a plan comes together like this one!

[David E Keller]

Very cool. I would love to try my hand at a set of these. This is another project screaming for a tutorial. Thanks for posting.

[Ryan Baker]

What a cool idea! They look great. I'm gonna add that to my todo list also.

[Toney Robertson]

I really like them and I will say that I will definitley make some real soon! I sold $900 worth of stuff this last weekend at the new gallery location and I am just tickled! I will need some new stuff to fill the shelves.

Thanks for the inspiration,

Jeff

$900.00 !!!!! That is great.

People up there must be spending but around here the market is DEAD.

The leaves should sell well. What do you think you might ask for them?

Toney

[Mark Beall]

Those are great! What a neat idea.

mark

[Dave Lehnert]

Very cool. I would love to try my hand at a set of these. This is another project screaming for a tutorial. Thanks for posting.

+1 for the tutorial.

[Dan Forman]

Quite lovely, can't say that I've ever seen anything like them before.

Dan

[Keith Burns]

Thanks guys for your comments. Certainly encouraging. The process for these is really quite simple and the time involved is minimal.

Step 1: Turn a shallow bowl with an ogee shape. Only need to be 3/4" to 1" tall. Turn thin 1/6" or so. Deep rounded bowl shapes don't work. I also rounded the bottoms, no foot.

Step 2: Draw a leaf of your choice on the bowl.

Step 3: Follow the lines and cut it out. I used my piercing tool with a straight bit but you could use almost anything.

Step 4: Color it with your choice of dyes. I used akaline dyes. Started with yellow then green then red.

[John Keeton]

And, the edges? Dyed, or black from cutting?

[Keith Burns]

And, the edges? Dyed, or black from cutting?

Both. A dull bit burns it. A permanent marker for touch up.