A little less ordinary

[Scott Hackler]

This was a Japanese Ornamental Plum rough out from at least a year ago. After drying, it had "dished" so bad that I through it on the shelf and forgot about it. I recently chucked it back up and thought I would turn a shallow bowl out of it but found out very quickly that the outside was relatively round! So the gears got turning and I settled with turning the outside round and sanding it to 400 and then texturing the concave rim/top. I treated the rim with dark stain and the rest received several coats of BLO. About 7 3/4" x 2 3/4" (at the ends).

Comments, critiques and Australian burls are always welcome. Thanks. :)

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[Richard Jones]

Scott,

Great save, love the rim treatment and the colors really complement each other. Did you wire brush that? How did you keep the stain from migrating?

Thanks for sharing.

Rich

[Marty Eargle]

Very interesting form that popped out. I like the shape and I like the grain but the top rim looks a little unfinished to me. Maybe the photo just makes the grain look a little odd on top, perhaps a top coat and a buff would make it stand more.

Still a very good looking and less ordinary piece!

[John Keeton]

Scott, this was a great way to salvage what would have been a rather plain (dare I say mundane) bowl! The rim treatment added a much needed element of interest and contrast. Good work!

[Doug W Swanson]

Scott,
This looks great! It almost looks like a NE bowl. Excellent!

[Ted Calver]

Very interesting piece. Looks like a good Skittle bowl.

[bob svoboda]

Very nice job of creating an interesting piece. Love the way the shape turned out and the rim looks great.

[Jim Burr]

Now that will hold some M&M's. Lip and rim treatment made all the difference Scott, good plan!

[Scott Hackler]

The texturing was a "if I screw it up I will just turn off the top" trial! I took a wire wheel and chucked it up in the drill and tried to orient the texture following the grain. Up close it is a pretty striking texture.....after the stain was applied! that made the difference. I applied the stain by first texturing, then masking off the entire bowl (blue tape) and almost dry brushing the dark stain with a little stippling where needed. I think that because the stain wasn't just "soaked" in, it stopped the blead into the rest of the vessel. I had thought about applying some lacquer but the soft glow of the BLO looked decent against the stain only rim.

[charlie knighton]

very nice, plum is nice

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work on coming up with a way to enhance the natural distortion caused by drying! Folks are going to wonder how you turned that! Pretty cool!