Couple of mulberry burl bowls

[Nathan Hawkes]

Just a couple bowls I finished a while back. I thought I'd lost the pictures, and since I don't have the bowls anymore, thought they were gone forever. Enjoy. Both are less than 1/4" thick, sanded to 600, then finished with multiple coats antique oil varnish, buffed with 3M white synthetic steel wool.

4.5" dia. by 3" deep.
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8" dia. by 5" deep.

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[George Guadiane]

Nice work on NICE wood. Glad you found the pictures, thanks for sharing them.

[John Keeton]

Very nice, Nathan! I like the one with the foot somewhat more, but both are well done.

[David DeCristoforo]

The footed bowl looks like a great exercise in "air turning". I have a chunk of burl just begging for a similar treatment...

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work on both bowls Nate! Really like the orientation on them! Great way to show off the natural edge!

[Curt Fuller]

These are both beautiful bowls and a great example of footed and footless. I would have a tough time deciding which I like best. Just goes to show that a bowl can be beautiful either way.

[David E Keller]

Two beautiful pieces of wood and two good looking bowls. I think I like the one with the foot better, but it's a close race.

[James Combs]

Chalk up one more vote for the footed bowel but it is a close race.

[Mark Burge]

They're all beauties.

[Nathan Hawkes]

Thanks for all the compliments folks. The footed bowl is one of if not my favorite piece ever. It was a gift to a very talented painter and lifetime family friend who has been very ill. It seemed the best possible home for it, and it had absolutely the perfect impact on the recipient that I intended it to. Thanks for sharing in that with me people; the fact that you all like it just makes me feel even better about "setting it free", so to speak.

[Dave MacArthur]

I love how the grain on the footed one is "asymmetric", that is it seems to center on a point just left of the foot, makes it very interesting.

[charlie knighton]

very nice....

[Paul Douglass]

Darn, those are pretty. That Mulberry is beautiful wood. Grows like a weed around here.

[brian watts]

both beautiful bowls. very nice work

[Donny Lawson]

I've got a mulberry bowl that should be ready to finish in a day or so.It turns easily but warps pretty bad.Yours turnned out nice
Donny

[Nathan Hawkes]

Thanks everyone. This wood was sitting for quite a while in my stash pile of waxed blanks. I had no idea it would end up this nice. Mulberry is a great turning wood, but is definitely more fun to turn when green. It becomes not unlike in hardness to its look-alike, osage orange when its been sitting in a hot shed for a few years. Still, dry burls can be fun to turn in another way--if the wood is sound, and you're careful with light cuts and very sharp tools, the surface finishes beautifully.

[Steve Kubien]

They look really nice now but wait until they've sat around for a year or two and go the chocolate-brown mulberry is known for. THEN they will be fantastic!!

[steven carter]

Nathan,

Really nice work, I like them both.

Steve