Little Carob bowl

[Kathy Marshall]

After cutting more blanks from the carob logs after work today, I decided that I still had enough time to feed the addiction and turn a small bowl. The blank was from one of the biggest logs. I had cut out a large bowl blank but it was much thicker than I would need for a large bowl, so I cut the bottom off and ended up with this blank. I normally do cut the bottoms off bowl blanks, but usually it's a much thinner slice and just sapwood.
Since it was such a big log, the sapwood area is almost a perfect circle and would have been more so if the log was more symetrical. I like the look and may have to try a few more from the other big logs.
It's 6" x 1 3/4" with a coat of BLO. Crappy pics from the shop don't show it to best advantage but I didn't feel like getting the photo tent set up.

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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.

[Roger Chandler]

Wow.......I like the grain orientation on this Kathy..........nice job getting it so the heartwood made a ring around the rim! That is just too cool!

[Pete Jordan]

Beautiful!

I thought it was pottery when I first looked.

[John Keeton]

Like Pete, I think it looks like a very nice piece of pottery with a glazed rim - nice effect, Kathy!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful! My first thoughts were that it reminds me of McCoy stoneware!

[Baxter Smith]

Nice effect Kathy! Never thought of trying that. Its a nice example of how good design starts with the chainsaw!

[Mike Cruz]

That's just beautiful! Love the grain orientation... And it looks like there is a lot going on in that sapwood, too.

[Alan Trout]

Kathy,

I like the way your oriented the wood. That is a wonderful little bowl.

Alan

[Tim Rinehart]

No question that you got the orientation excellent on this!! I like it!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful piece Kathy. Love the way you oriented the wood.

[Prashun Patel]

Perfect. I love the design.

[Ken Glass]

Kathy,
A very nice bowl. I like it a lot. It almost looks like stone pottery with your orientation. I second the idea of not setting up the photo tent.

[Kathy Marshall]

Thanks guys! Without the orientation, it would be just a plain, average little bowl, so I'm glad I chanced upon a blank cut just right to ring the rim with heartwood. Hopefully i can duplicate it and now I'm thinking it would really be cool if I could get a blank big enough to turn a plate with a ringed rim!

[Doug W Swanson]

That's a really neat bowl, Kathy. I love how it looks like it's filled with Cream of Wheat. Great job!

[Tim Chase]

Kathy
Great idea and real nice execution it seems like the others have all the great details pointed out.
I may use that plate idea, I do believe that will work it will just take a larger log to get a dinner sized plate.
Tim

[Jack Daniels]

Beautiful bowl !!! But what kind of wood is this?

[Kathy Marshall]

Beautiful bowl !!! But what kind of wood is this?

Thanks Jack! The wood is Carob.

[David DeCristoforo]

Only fitting that a carob bowl would be made of carob wood! Second (and third and fourth) on the excellent grain orientation...