My Purdy Rock Bowl

[Ray Bell]

I have always had an attraction to rocks. If I find them on the beach, or in one of the rip off shops in Az. I just can't help myself, I have to pick some up. For you old enough to remember, it is probably comparable Imelda Marcos, and her shoe fetish. Only mine is rocks:o.

Anyway this is a bowl I made to store some of them in. Walnut, 9 1/2" D. x 6" tall w/lid. So far finished with two coats of Tung oil.

[Trevor Walsh]

I particularly like the rock in the knob. Those are some fancy colored rocks, what kinds are they?

[Ray Bell]

Trevor, I wish I knew. I used to write them down as I got them, but have long ago lost that list. Some day I will get with a rock hound and find out again.

[Bernie Weishapl]

I do like that rock knob on a nice bowl.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Good looking bowl - very colorful collection!

[David DeCristoforo]

Better keep it away from the kids. Those look like jelly beans!

[John Keeton]

Neat bowl, Ray!! Really some nice figure in the lid. Do you tumble your rocks, or are those the way you found them?

[Paul Douglass]

Nice bowl Ray. I understand the rock thing, I'm sorta that way with marbles. It's from when I was a kid and played marbles all the time. I don't buy them but every time I empty a can of spray paint I cut it open and get the marble. I have an old coke bottle in the garage I put them in. They are all "clearies".

[Donny Lawson]

Nice bowl and nice rocks.I pick up rocks all the time myself. Those had to come out of a tumbler somewhere.
Donny

[Michael James]

Stout looking bowl befitting your collection of jewels there! I've heard of this Marcos women and her shoes from the history books... <snicker>:cool:

[Ray Bell]

Thanks all. No John these were all bought like this. I don't have a rock tumbler.

Keep snickering James. Someday you will be there, and some, and the shoe will be on the other foot. Some young punk will be snickering at you:D

[Tom Wilson66]

Seems to me it should have been made from "rock" maple:D

[Ron Stadler]

that is a purdy bowl, like it very much and the as everyone has said, the rock knob is pretty cool.

[Mark Hubl]

Nice bowl to hold your rocks. Like the rock in the top.

[bob svoboda]

Another nice one Ray! Good work.

[Baxter Smith]

Nice looking bowl. The rocks add some color. I have considered doing something similar sometime with stones from a beach and using just one for the knob(It would be the knob). Thanks for keeping it no too far back in my mind!:)