Bowl of Fruit

[Johnny Taylor]

I'd never turned any fruit before yesterday and to be honest it wasn't something I ever planned on doing but a customer requested some so I agreed to turn 15 pieces. I turned 4 Burbinga apples,2 Oak apples,3 Oak pears,3 Beech pears and 3 Yew oranges. It ended up being quite a fun job and quick too with no hollowing required:cool:

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They're not all shown here just what would fit in a bowl that I had to hand. They are finished with satin lacquer with a little bit of paste wax rubbed over afterwards to give them a nice feel in the hand.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Johnny - that's a really cool idea and they look great! Your customer should be pleased!

[Jon Nuckles]

Very nicely done. The bubinga gives a very appealing apple color.

[Brian Effinger]

Neat! The look good enough to eat. :D I just read an article in a magazine about turning fruit, and now that I've seen your's, I have to give it a try.

[Tim Rinehart]

Very nice work Johnny...great compliment to any table or case!

[Johnny Taylor]

Thanks for the replies, I forgot to mention that the stalks are pieces of birch twig and the bits underneath are cloves.

[Sean Hughto]

That's really great looking. I like the bowl too. The verigated (sp?) uh, multi-colored ones really grab me.

[Jim Adkins]

Nice looking fruit collection BUT.......I wanna know more about the nice, spiral-beaded bowl.
Did you turn it also & if so.....how did you do it, Sorby spiralling tool?? please!!

[Doug W Swanson]

Those look great! I like the variations of colors and shapes....

Nice looking bowl, too!

[John Keeton]

I with Jim on this one! Great job on the fruit, but we need to full story - and, more pics - of the bowl!

[Jon McElwain]

I like that bowl, but I am not sure I would eat the fruit - it looks a little grainy. ;)

[Johnny Taylor]

Jon, they're not only grainy but a little hard on the teeth too!

The bowl was made from a piece of Chestnut I got from the local woodyard, they had it for about 10 years before I bought it,it was so dry getting a good finish was going to be impossible(or at least take more sanding than I was willing to do!) and an internal knot hole appeared right in the centre, so I attacked the inside with the Sorby Spiraling tool and torch and the outside is half done with the sorby tool and half done with an angle grinder. I'll take a pick tomorrow in the daylight!

[Tim Thiebaut]

Johnny very cool fruit you have made here! Those apples have a great color of red to them as well.

[James Combs]

Some very nice looking fruit...turnings. However the apple on the far right appears to be going bad. You may want to take it out before it spoils the rest.:D

[Mark Hubl]

That is a good looking bowl of fruit.

[David E Keller]

Nice work on the whole bundle. The clove for the bottom is a fantastic idea that I will be forced to borrow at some point in the future. Thanks!

[Paul Douglass]

Now that is really nice. My wife would go nuts over it, she likes wooden fruit. With the wood and the cloves, it ought to smell nice too.

[Kathy Marshall]

Very Nice!
I can see I'm going to have to add fruit to my list of turnings to try!

[Ron Stadler]

Looks great, and hopefully No worms in the apples.