Popcorn Bowl

[dan carter]

This is a piece of Ambrosia Maple. 6 x 12 Shellac sealer and several coats of WOP and buffed. Popcorn bowls seem to have a pretty good market around here. Usually cut out the pith, but this particular tree hasn't shown that it wants to split/crack all that much. Thanks for looking.

[David DeCristoforo]

That's a beauty, Dan! Great bowl, great wood and I can already smell the popcorn. Now I'm going to have to make some... popcorn that is, not bowls!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow - you sure got a lot of color in that bowl! Very nice form and a perfect size for popcorn!

[Roger Chandler]

Very colorful piece, and I like the form.....especially the band around the rim.........nice work!

[Greg Ketell]

That is really nice!

[Brian Libby]

I like the color and the band at the rim.
I alway like a band or at least several beads at the rim, IMO it dresses up the bowl!

[David E Keller]

That's pretty! I like the band and the little out turn at the rim... Both features make it easier to hang on to when you're carrying it around.

[Michael James]

Nice job on the bowl, and what great color in that wood! In one of the shots it looks just like a dripping wash......

[Donny Lawson]

Alot of good color in that big bowl. Good touch with the rim.

[John Nowack]

love it...love pocorn to... have a peice of wood that hope has not rotted in the bag yet....hope to get smeting out of it half as good as yours

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice and pretty bowl. Yep lots of popcorn.

[Baxter Smith]

Really pretty bowl with a nice shape. As good to look at as it will be to eat out of!

[John Hart]

Nicely done Dan....a beauty for the lap :)

[Michelle Rich]

a handsome bowl-love the big rim and the shape..wood is stunning

[John Keeton]

Dan, wonderfully done, and the rim is a nice feature, too. I am surprised the end grain turning didn't produce some cracking - worked out very well as it produced some nice character to this one.

The wood is beautiful, and I could easily be wrong on this, but I think the coloration is from some other source other than the Ambrosia beetle. There is no evidence of the holes and the typical streaking usually found in Ambrosia maple - as in this pic.

http://www.test.creativewoodenart.com/xcart/images/D/maple-ambrosia.jpg

[Darren Jamieson]

Very nice, I had to look twice to see that it wasn't some kind of a wash or dye to give it that great color line.

[dan carter]

[QUOTE=John Keeton;1695104]Dan, wonderfully done, and the rim is a nice feature, too. I am surprised the end grain turning didn't produce some cracking - worked out very well as it produced some nice character to this one.

The wood is beautiful, and I could easily be wrong on this, but I think the coloration is from some other source other than the Ambrosia beetle. There is no evidence of the holes and the typical streaking usually found in Ambrosia maple - as in this pic.

John, now that you mention it, you very well may be right. I didn't notice any holes , frass, etc.

[bob svoboda]

Nice. That will make popcorn taste even better than usual!

[Bill Bolen]

Great piece especially for the intended use. I haven't seen an end grain bowl posted in a very long time. Really like the way this turned out..

[Dennis Simmons]

Very nice bowl, I also like the one on the old chest, over by the wall. It looks like an old ice chest.