Natural edge ash bowl

[Dennis Ford]

This Ash bowl is 11" wide and 5" high. Finish is Minwax Wipe on Poly. Comments and critiques welcome.

[Richard Madden]

That's a beauty, Dennis. Looks like a nice thin wall and luckily the bark stayed. Great job!

[robert baccus]

Like all of Dennis's it is obsenely thin and well finished too.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Nice one Dennis, kept the bark nicely intact and the grain aligns very nicely as well :cool:

[Michael Dromey]

Nice bowl Dennis. I recently started back in turning. I was working on a walnut NE the other day. Well I didn't have a light enough touch. A big chunk of bark csme off. Now it is just a small bowl. Will get finished when I am over the flu.

[Fred Belknap]

Dennis nice job on the NE. Ash makes very nice NE bowls, love the color of the bark.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really nice bowl Dennis. Nicely done.

[bob svoboda]

Nicely turned, great grain alignment and good job keeping the bark on. Being very nitpicky I might suggest the foot is a bit thick for my taste, but that's just my taste. Terrific turning!

[skott nielsen]

Nicely centered. Did you have any troubles sanding. I offer get a washboard effect on ash and am looking for suggestions to avoid that.

[Brian Kent]

I have to finish the wings with the lathe off or very slow, using a power sander.

I have never done a live edge with bark intact. This is very beautiful.

[Dennis Ford]

Nicely centered. Did you have any troubles sanding. I offer get a washboard effect on ash and am looking for suggestions to avoid that.

I have had the washboard effect and believe it comes from using worn-out sandpaper and/or too fine of a grit along with pressing too hard while sanding. Once you get a good surface with coarse grit, it should take only a little sanding with each finer grit.

[Kelvin Burton]

Nice one Dennis! Can't wait to get home to my lathe and get some wood spinning again!