Maple Burl Bowl

[scott ward]

A week ago a friend from work gave me a truckload of old maple burl. He knew I was getting a new lathe and figured I could used it. He said his grandfather cut it years ago and it has been in a shed ever since.

My lathe came in Thursday, I got it set up and checked out and turned a couple little things. So today I figured I would try one of the burl pieces. I picked a small piece that I could cut a round on my little bandsaw.

Little is relative, as it is the largest diameter I have ever turned. I have been using a little harbor freight lathe for the last year and a half and could only turn about 6 or 7 inches. This one is 9, but started about 10.

Here it is..
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and the bottom...
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[Jim Becker]

That's a mighty beautiful piece of maple burl and you did justice to it!

[Lee Schierer]

A very striking piece of burl.

[Brian Brightwell]

Wow, very nice.

[Jenny Trice]

Beautiful! What did you use for finish?

[julian abram]

Very nice!

[James Combs]

That's what you call "WOW" wood. Impressive work also. :)

Edit: Scott, you may want to consider posting your turnings over in the "Turner's Forum", a lot of turners over there that may not get over here in the Woodworking Projects forum very often.