Second bowl

[Alan Zenreich]

Things are progressing... I'm having fun playing with the tools and the techniques.

This is a little 4.5" x 2" osage orange bowl was finished with Danish Oil, then Tru-Oil, then buffed and Renaissance wax.

With every turning, comes some learning. (oooh, how poetic!)

[John Keeton]

Excellent form, Alan!! Nice piece of osage - it will mellow into a beautiful color. Good job on this one, and I assume you ate the rest of the peanuts during your feeling of elation???:D

[Dennis Ford]

The bowl looks good, Osage is nice wood for turning and you did a good job on this one.

[David E Keller]

Pretty stuff. Nice shape and finish.

[alex carey]

don't give up your day job for poetry, you stink! just kiddin, nice looking bowl, progressing pretty quickly, looks better than my second bowl.

[Allen Neighbors]

Wonderful! 2d? Wow! Dontcha just love Osage? Two thumbs up!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow - really good looking bowl - especially for your second! Looking forward to seeing #3!

[Roland Martin]

Very well done, especially for a 2nd bowl. Nice form & finish. I'll have to turn something out of Osage someday.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking bowl. Really nice OO.

[Donny Lawson]

Nice bowl. Looks like my Mulberry bowl. Mine isn't dry yet though.
Donny

[Mike Willeson]

Very nice Alan. Beautiful wood.

[Alan Zenreich]

Thanks for all your kind words and encouragement.

The peanuts were there only for a sense of scale. Big decision was peanuts or M&Ms. Yes, I considered a hybrid... peanut M&Ms, but
the au natural legumes won out.

You'll be entertained to know that just as I was finishing my initial post, I managed to drop the bowl.

I was about to submit the message when I realized that I had not measured the bowl.

I went back down into the shop, grabbed the bowl from the photo tent, and brought it up to my office. I grabbed a tape measure, looked at the number on the tape, looked at my computer... and promptly dropped the bowl.

It bounced off my keyboard, hit the seat of my chair, then landed on the slate floor. DING, on the side of the bowl, near the bottom.

I guess it's like having a new car. There's a relief when the first ding comes... now you don't have to wonder when it will occur.

I laughed and showed the ding (it's small, but there) to my wife. She smiled because she knows I now have a story to tell during show and tell at tonight's Hudson Valley Woodturners Club. I hve a few hours before tonight's meeting, maybe I can come up with a better story.

Now if I can only think up something clever to have caused that slight tearout inside the bowl.... <vbg>

[Joe Little]

Great job. Really nice to see good results from all that learnin'.

[steven carter]

Alan,

Nice job on the osage orange bowl, nice pleasant form, it will hold peanuts for years to come. You can use this picture to compare the color as it changes to brown with exposure to uv.

Steve