Red Gum NE

[Kathy Marshall]

Last weekend I had a visit from fellow Creeker Barry Richardson. We did a little wood exchange, and one of the smaller pieces he brought for me was a med sized round blank of Red Gum. It was a dry blank and completely intact (no cracks).
I decided to go with an NE bowl. Don't know if it's just the nature of this wood, or my technique and tool control, but getting a clean cut was not easy and there was quite a bit of tear out, especially on the outside where the cut was interrupted. I cleaned it up as best I could by shear scraping and then sanded until I thought my hand was gonna fall off.
6 1/2" x 4 1/2" finished with DO and Ren wax. The DO really darkened this up.

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This was good practice for the large block of Red Gum and the large round blank of Ironwood that Barry also left (I think I got the better end of this deal :eek: ).
Thanks Barry!

Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.

[Michelle Rich]

interesting bowl..I'm looking forward to the ironwood

[John Keeton]

Interesting wood! I am surprised at how dark it turned. Some very neat looking figure in the one side, too! Great work, as always, Kathy.

[Doug W Swanson]

Excellent job. The natural edge looks great!

[Allan Ferguson]

Turning dry natural edge bowls is just plain tough to do. Takes a lot of difficult sanding, results are like watching grass grow. Like it. Did you set it on a flat base or round bottom?

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice Kathy. Interesting that the wood turned so dark. I have did a couple of red gum bowls with AO and they didn't darken like this one.