3 new bowls

[sascha gast]

first one is an 18"x9" hollow form from bigleaf maple, wall thickness about 3/8, didn't want any thinner since it had lots of spalting and i had to use lots of CA glue to keep it stable.
the second one is walnut burl, a gift from david marks, and the third one is another bigleaf maple piece, burned in the grooves with a wire.
those are about 10" diameter.
finish is a 24 hour bath in my 55gallon watco barrel i use for my norfolk pine turnings, then they dried for 2 days, buffed and then a few coats of a wipe on poly. i usually don't do the real shiny finish, but for those pieces it was a good choice since they took do different after buffing the watco, had a few dull spots. last step was buffing them with renaissance wax

thanx for looking guys

sascha

[sascha gast]

here the bottoms of the bowls and my watco barrel at that point about 28 gallons of finish, now i have about 32 gallons, mostly homebrew danish oil, about 8 gallons of watco and 1 gallon of turpentine. we'll see what i add next

sascha

[John Hart]

Stunning work Sasha. You are definitely world class

[Lee DeRaud]

...the second one is walnut burl, a gift from david marks...I think we need to invent a new icon to tag "stealth gloat" posts. :cool:

[Mark Singer]

Sascha,
Great work....beautiful!

[Gary Max]

Those are great---I love the big leaf maple bowl.
I bet you where holding your breath when you where finish turning the last lillte bit.

[Ed Scolforo]

Sascha, Stunning work, all of them!
Ed

[Ernie Nyvall]

More great looking stuff. I really like the HF.

Ernie

[Jim Becker]

He be exercising the swing on that nice new Stubby!! Nice work, Sascha. Keep it coming!