African Sumac Bowl\dish

[Mike Vickery]

I will let you decide if this is a shalow bowl or a dish. My wife calls it an ash tray.
The wood is Africa Sumac it is 9.5x 1.5 and it was finished with Watco Danish oil and buffed. It is a core from a bigger bowl. The wood had some light curl in it but not much of it is in this piece.

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Comments and critiques are welcome.

[Patrick Taylor]

Very nice! I love the rim, and the scored lines are a great touch. What a great color too. It's a very similar shape and size to a black cherry piece that I was just turning tonight. Nice coincidence! Keep up the great work.

[Patrick Taylor]

I forgot to mention, you NAILED that outside curve. Great job.

[Paul Heely]

Very nice form and finish. And I'd call it a shallow bowl...

[Mark Cothren]

Very nice... elegant even... nice work, Mike!

[George Van]

Mike, the form and finish suit this well, I too end up with a lot of this sized blank from cores. I like the detail under the rim. My only concern would be damage to the sharp rim if this is to be used rather than displayed.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Mike that is a beauty. Form and finish is great. Nice job.

[jeremy levine]

I really like it , the color , form and finish are great.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful bowl Mike! Great form, wonderful color and very nice detail work! Very nice!

[Kim Ford]

Plate, platter, bowl or dish . . . whatever it is I sure like it. Good Job:)

[Mark Pruitt]

Bowl? Dish? Dunno....all I know is, it's excellent! I especially like the wide rim.

[Gary Herrmann]

Nope, much too nice to be an ash tray.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Beautifully done Mike! You've been turning out of lot of great turnings lately!

[Cory Martin]

Whatever it is, it's wonderful!!!

[Curt Fuller]

That's a very nice looking bowl. It sure has a nice rich looking color.

[Keith Burns]

Mike, I don't care what you call it, just don't call it an ash tray !! It is a terrific piece and I really like it !!:) :)

[Mike Vickery]

Thanks everyone I really appreciate it.

For those of you not familiar with African sumac it starts out as a very uninteresting pink color but gets red when left in sunlight. This is my first finished piece useing it and it tanned by the pool for 2 days to get the dark red color. It probably would have gotten darker it left out longer but the color was about where I wanted it. It is a very nice wood to work with and shines up really well.
Very strange wood though because the sealed log sections in my garage started cracking from the bark in, so a lot of the pieces I got out of this haul are shallower then I would normally like. Expect to see a lot more of this from me in the next year. I DNA dried this one but most of them are air drying.

[Ernie Nyvall]

Whatever you want to call it, it looks great. Nice job Mike.