Took some time out and turned these bowls

[Sparky Paessler]

I took some time off from the shop remodel and finished up these 3 bowls that I roughed out a few months ago. All are maple, the darker one is 8 1/2" x 2 1/2". The other two are 11" x 3 3/4".

[Sparky Paessler]

Here is a close up of the edge treatment that I was experminting with on one of these.

[Steve Stube]

Very nice looking bowls Sparky. How about a close-up of the edge on the last (bottom) bowl in the first post. Looks like some very fine line detail.

Glad you took a little break, beautiful results. The remodel project is coming along fine too. All work and no play is no fun anyway!

[Gary Max]

Great job on getting that finish to shine. I like the bead and rim cut you made--gives the bowl a lot of detail. Thanks for sharing.

[Glenn Hodges]

Those are great looking bowls. Those extra efforts around the rim really add to them. The curves really flow and say pick me up and take me homel.

[John Hart]

I like them all. Very nice, and the detail on the rim gives me lots of ideas. Very beautiful work Sparky.

[Ernie Nyvall]

I like that rim as the others. Good work.

Ernie

[Michael Stafford]

Sparky, mighty fine looking bowls. I look forward to you returning to your hollow form work also. Beautiful detail on the rims!!! :)

[Sparky Paessler]

Very nice looking bowls Sparky. How about a close-up of the edge on the last (bottom) bowl in the first post. Looks like some very fine line detail.

Glad you took a little break, beautiful results. The remodel project is coming along fine too. All work and no play is no fun anyway!


Thanks guys for all the nice comments. I have learned a lot from this forum. I just last week put some bowls and pens in a local gallery for the first time. Don't know if any have sold yet or not. Here is a close up shot of that other rim Steve.

[Steve Stube]

Thanks Sparky, it looks great. I seem to loose such sharp detail in the sanding process - don't know how you keep the crispness, gotta be talent.

[Sparky Paessler]

Steve, It wasn't easy keeping the detail that sharp. I also lost a little in the sanding. I have got to keep that power sander further away next time!