Super Bowl Bowl

[Curt Fuller]

I've never been much of a football fan, at least not on TV, so I seldom watch the Super Bowl. Today, while all the pregame hype was probably going on I went out to the garage and re-turned one of the old bowls I have. This one is another Siberian Elm bowl. I tried to do a little something with this one so it wouldn't be just another bowl. But it still is pretty much just another bowl. I undercut the rim, left the rim wide and threw in a little bead on the rim just for the heck of it. Other than that it's just a 11" x 3" bowl. The wood is kind of pretty, even more so than the pictures show.

This is the roughed bowl I started with. Roughed for 30-40 years and still pretty round....
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This is the finished bowl. Finish is AO and just rubbed down by hand.
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[Nate Davey]

Nice, time better spent. That is some beautiful wood. Love the undercut rim.

[charlie knighton]

very nicely done, Curt

did any of the blanks crack while in storage???? i would be amazed if all the blanks came thru without cracking

[Thomas Heck]

Nice job. Grain and form look great.

[Jason Ritchie]

That's a great looking bowl! Very beautiful wood.

[mark ravensdale]

Very nice wood Curt!!!
sometimes it pays to let the wood do the talking, I like it Kurt !!!

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

Kurt,
I thought I was the only one who spent the game in the shop. Anyway, it's too bad the wood wasn't a burl or you could have made a Super Bowl Burl Bowl. However, despite the fact it is not burl, it is a really pretty piece of wood. In fact, a "Particularly Pretty Superbowl Not Burl Bowl". I like the fact that you still use a faceplate. Nothing holds better. Do you find a way to remove the holes or just let them show?
faust

[Brian Kent]

What you did sure beats watching the first half blow-out. Second half was a real contest.

[Jerry Marcantel]

Kind of pretty, huh? More like Wow pretty....... Good looking bowl, Curt..... Jerry (in Tucson)

[paul vechart]

Nice looking super bowl Curt...what finish is that?

[Curt Fuller]

Thanks everyone! Who won the game anyway? ;)


I like the fact that you still use a faceplate. Nothing holds better. Do you find a way to remove the holes or just let them show?
faust

Faust, I actually rarely use a face plate. These bowl are from a bunch I "inherited" http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?197852-30-40-or-so-year-old-roughed-bowls&highlight= Hiding the holes from the faceplates has been the one thing I haven't found a good way to do yet. The holes are too deep to turn away, filling them seems to make them stand out even more. So I just leave them. But I agree, the wood has been very pretty wood so far.

[Steve Mawson]

Probably better than just an average bowl. Very nice. I missed the lights going out, guess they came back on??

[Doug W Swanson]

That's a super bowl, Curt!

[Timothy Mann]

That is very nice Curt and a beautiful piece of wood as well.

[Lori Kleinberg]

Really nice looking bowl, Curt.

[Kathy Marshall]

That's a super bowl, Curt!
Couldn't have said it better myself! Pretty wood and I like your rim treatment.

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

Curt,
During my first try as a wood turner, probably 30 years ago, we had no chucks and everything was turned on a face plate. I still have a decent size piece of green felt we used to cover the bottom of the bowl.
faust

[Michelle Rich]

that elm is lovely. nice undercut rim

[Thomas Canfield]

You made the old wood come to life. The bead is a neat extra along with the undercut wide rim. Looking forward to seeing more tricks with the old wood.

[dean griffith]

Nice job Curt. The bead looks great too