A black blue ribbon!

[Steve Vaughan]

One of my latest bowls, maple with black-dyed (shoe leather dye) outside and carved/woodburning basket weave design. After dying, I lightly sanded around the bowl to give it a worn and used look.

I put this bowl in our little local county fair and won a blue ribbon! Granted, not much competition in the turning department, but it's a blue ribbon and I won 3 bucks for it:D! Size of the bowl is 11 1/2" in diameter and 3 1/2" high. Wall is roughly 5/16".


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[George Guadiane]

Nice bowl!
Congratulations on the ribbon...

And the three bucks, that should finish your retirement account! ;)

[charlie knighton]

very nice Steve, usually you just get a ribbon, $3 is cool

[Scott Hackler]

Nice work Steve and congrats on the award.

[Kathy Marshall]

Congrats on the blue ribbon Steve! Nice looking bowl too!

[Michelle Rich]

$3 ? new 3520 account? :-) cool texturing

[Roger Chandler]

Nice one Steve..........very creative......... and 3 bucks..........Wow, now you can buy more shoe dye! :rolleyes::D

[Steve Schlumpf]

Steve - congrats on your big win! Cool design on the bowl! I do like the contrast between inside and out!

[Tim Rinehart]

Beautiful piece Steve, the prize is well deserved. That's a great idea doing a little distress to the outside finish, just enough to look authentic! Well done.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Congrats on your award and I really like the treatment on the bowl. I do like that the inside was left natural.

[Steve Busey]

Nice bowl - congrats on your "award winning" achievement. Don't spend it all in one place!

[Norm Zax]

Great surface treatment! How are the bottom-to-top lines made so straight? Not freehand, right?

[Bill Bolen]

WTG! Love the texturing and the dye job.

[Steve Vaughan]

Thanks everyone. Michelle, yes, that will go to start my 3520 account! (I wish) Norm, while it was on the lathe, I penciled in the bottom to top lines using the indexing feature. Then I used a ruler and laid out the marks evenly to go around the bowl...held a pencil in place and rotated the piece.

On the bottom to top lines, I used the v-gouge on my power carver to make the lines. (pardon me for a small gloat here :o ...I picked up an Automach power carver for 25 bucks:p at an auction! You seen the prices on those things:eek:???) I also used the v-gouge on the heavier horizontal lines.

Thanks again everyone!

[Baxter Smith]

Congrats! I like the texturing on the outside!