Spalted Apple Bowl

[Patrick Doody]

Well this one was a good learning experience, I had a few troubles with it but I learned a lot about working with crack prone wood, And I managed to make something out of it. It's going out as a gift this week. it's about 8 1/2 diameter. finished with Danish oil, buffed with tripoli and ren wax.

Thank you everyone that helped me in the "apple cracks" thread!!!

Comments and Critiques requested.


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[Michael James]

Beautiful chunk of wood and I LOVE the finish on that. Great job, I'm sure the owner will be happy wth that one!
mj

[Norm Zax]

Pure apple delight! Well done.

[Steve Vaughan]

Man, I've got to find me some apple! That's gorgeous!

[John Keeton]

Patrick, I would say you did well with that one!! Really a beautiful piece - one of the nicest chunks of wood I have seen.

[Patrick Doody]

Thanks for the great comments everybody, yeah not too bad for wood that I found on the curb less than a block away from my house. this bowl was a series of missteps and corrections. I did a lot of monkeying with it and there were several points where i thought it would end up as firewood so I'm glad i was able to save it. this is the nicest looking wood that I've been able to work with so far. I'm tempted to keep it which i think is the sign of a good gift.

A few things I learned on this one:
1) always look at the curb for interesting wood.
2) when you find the wood go back and get the rest of it (luckily I learned
this b4 it was all gone)
3) Thin CA is my friend
4) Anchorseal is tough to remove with sand paper :D
5) even quick trips inside and outside of the house can make a bowl crack
6)turn the rest before it all cracks

[Prashun Patel]

That's a beautiful bowl.

[Ralph Lindberg]

I turn a lot of Apple (comes from living in Washington State I guess). It can be a poorly behaved wood, but it can also be, well.... wonderful

I own the remants of a rather old Apple orchard. The trees were old when I bought the property 30 years ago, Rush Fairfield recalls the orchard when he and his wife were growing up here, well. many years ago.

[Michelle Rich]

very pretty wood, what a find. Keep at it, it gets easier.

[Bill Bolen]

You did a fine job on an outstanding piece of wood.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow - that's going to be an excellent gift! Beautiful wood! Congrats on getting it finished without checking!

[Baxter Smith]

Great color and grain in that wood. I'm glad that this one made it for you. I have not always been so lucky though I still love to turn it!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Wow that is pretty. Great color and the bowl looks really nice.

[David E Keller]

I think that's a great looking bowl. When the wood is that pretty, you can't beat a nice, clean form IMO.

[Patrick Doody]

David did you get a haircut?

yeah i'm hoping to get a few more bowls out of this stuff, hopefully I can even keep one. :)

seems to be a lot of apple wood threads lately. it's great wood, next one i'm going to try a slightly different drying method, I did have a few small cracks in this one but i was able to catch them before they got too big.