Another Fiddle Maple

[Bob Bergstrom]

This maple was harvested from a golf course in the western suburbs of Chicago. It was a mature tree with lot of brown heart wood and fiddled grain. The tree layed on asphalt for a couple summer months before we got to it. We sawed over forty blanks from it. Amazingly it wasn't too cracked. The black coloring suggests some type of spalting. The wood was solid and a pleasure to turn. The bowl is about 7 1/2" wide and 3 1/2" deep. It is about 3/16" thick. Finish is lacquer over Formby's Gloss Tung Oil.

[jwjerry w kowalski]

Beautiful wood and nicely done, wish I could find something like that.

[robert baccus]

Wow++++wow

[Dan Masshardt]

The color on the outside is amazing. As shown in the first photo.

[Bill Hensley]

Loving the character of the wood. I also appreciate the lack of any embellishments to allow the beauty of the wood to do all the talking. Well done on a fine looking bowl.

Question about the finish, is it NC lacquer and how was it applied?

[Michael Gibson]

Nicely turned bowl using a great piece of wood. Michael.

[Sid Matheny]

About the nicest bowl I have ever seen!



Sid

[Gus Dundon]

Great looking bowl! Beautiful wood. It turned out really well.