Beaded Spalted Elm Bowl

[Jeremy Leasure]

So a few days ago I lost my 4 month battle with tool lust disease. I ordered the full set of D-way beading tools, the diamond tool, a 12" handle, reducer bushing..............8" 180 grit CBN Wheel. Dave had them to my door in two days flat. I'm an Amazon Prime junkie so it takes quite a bit for any online retailer to not annoy me these days, much less impress. He pulled it off.

Here's what I came up with. There are 2 booboos on this from catches on the endgrain. I sent Dave an e-mail describing the issue and asking for some tips on presentation. He responded within a couple hours. On the weekend.

8.125"x3.125"

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[Jim Burr]

You're going to love those beaders Jeremy!!! You should have picked up the phone! Dave will talk anyone thru anything anytime! Great gloat...and cool bowl to boot!

[Roland Martin]

Very nice, Jeremy, nice consistent beading and a nice piece of elm. Sounds like you're doing your part in keeping Dave in business:D, he's a good guy and makes some nice tooling. I ordered one beading tool and the teardrop tool a couple of weeks ago to try them out, I'll definitely be ordering the other bead sizes in the future. I was really conservative though, I only put 4 beads at the rim, chicken?, yeah:)

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice Jeremy. I just ordered a 180 CBN wheel, a 3/16" beader and the tear drop tool. Was going to go all out but the minister of finance said easy boy, try one first.:D

[Jeremy Leasure]

Thanks. I think I'l be ordering his spindle roughing gouge at some point as well. I'm still using my old Pinnacle that just won't hold an edge. It's all I use on pens so it would get some decent use. The handle is pretty cool looking too, by the way. Nice and solid feeling.

[David DeCristoforo]

Looks like an outbreak of "beaditis" here on SMC. Where's that Dr. Keller when you need him? The beading is nice and adds some visual interest. But this would be a fine looking bowl without them. It's a very nice form.

[Baxter Smith]

Nice looking bowls out of some very pretty wood!

[Kathy Marshall]

Very nice bowl Jeremy! Great job on the beads, those beading tools are great aren't they?

[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful bowl! Looks like you got that beading stuff down pretty good!