Carved and Textured Walnut Bowl

[Raymond Overman]

Here's the latest piece I've turned. I roughed this out a couple of weeks ago and ran it through the DNA bath. Finish turned it yesterday evening.

It has a lot going on from the bottom. I first burnished lines in the bowl to outline the texturing tool section. I textured it with a crosshatch and hand carved the squiggles using a V chisel. I wasn't quite satisfied with the bottom section so I gave it a little more texture using a dremel tool with a small burr between the squiggles.

Walnut
9 1/2" Diameter x 3 3/4" Tall
Danish Oil, Beall buffed and waxed

[John Timberlake]

Very nice bowl. Nice job of decoration.

[Dick Parr]

Great Job Raymond, nice texturing and carving.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful job carving and texturing. I like the walnut with the sap wood. Nice.

[Dennis Peacock]

Very nice Raymond. I really like the added carving to this bowl. Nice touch.

[Ernie Nyvall]

Very cool Raymond. Nice texturing on that form.

Ernie

[Andy Hoyt]

Nice one Raymond. What's the dohickey on the bottom symbolize?

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Beautiful work Ray!!:)

[Raymond Overman]

Nice one Raymond. What's the dohickey on the bottom symbolize?

Andy,

That's just my logo. It's a person holding a bowl. I had a custom brand made last year with it.

Thanks for the comments.

[Corey Hallagan]

Very nice Raymond. Great coloring and the shape looks great!

Corey

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Excellant effort, Raymond. The combination looks wonderful together.

Bruce

[Jerry Vander Till]

Raymond,

Texture and other details add some great visual interest. It feels like it's just right, if you had done more, it probably would have been too much.

Great job.

[Glenn Hodges]

Raymond I know you put a lot of work in decorating this bowl. I tend to think more bland wood is best to decorate with carving, inlays, and texturing, but what does an old swamp rat like me know about design? I just know this is a beautiful piece of wood and I think your turning is just right for it with very pleasing curves, wall thickness, and a bottom which seems correct for it also. Thanks for letting me see it.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Raymond..........I like it! Beautiful wood....I like the combination of carving, texturing....everything! How does walnut turn? Today I came into some English Walnut grafted to Black Walnut.

[Barry Stratton]

Now that is impressive Raymond! I like the "simple" lines combined with the texturing.

[Henry C. Gernhardt, III]

Very nice work, Raymond. I really like the design of the embellishments---I think it sets the piece off very nicely.

[Mark Cothren]

Raymond, I like the bowl and the wood, for sure. This is very nice detailed work. The textured band looks great on this bowl to me! The wavy carved lines don't really appeal to my personal taste - but that's just my own opinion. Not knocking the carving at all.

Nice work!

[Tom Sherman]

A very nice bowl Raymond, the extra effort with the texturizing and carving adds character.

[Keith Burns]

Another nice bowl Raymond. I like the texturing and carving. Nice form as well.:)

[Frank Chaffee]

Raymond,
Very nice wood and wood grain orientation, and also a fine bowl form. I particularly like the ascending line at the lip.

Your surface treatment however sets this bowl apart, and definitely raises the bar for turners!

Most excellent Raymond! Keep it up!!!

Frank