White Oak "Masterpiece"

[Steve Campbell]

About a week ago I posted a picture of a White Oak bowl that was cracked so badly I was going to burn it in the wood stove. A number of you talked me into saving it. Well here it is. It is sure not what I would call a Masterpiece but it did come out better than I thought it would. I used a bunch of epoxy and a little red brown dye.
Thanks for convincing me to save this one.

Steve

[TYLER WOOD]

One heck of a save there bud. Beautiful work. I have done similar things and they are always a peasant suprise. Welcome to the world of never burning another piece of wood again!

[Rich Stewart]

Amazing how you can save one like that. Great job.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice save Steve! Good looking bowl and the finish highlights all the charactor in the wood! Nice work!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Steve that is a great looking bowl and a great save. Well done.

[Jeffrey Fusaro]

good save.

i didn't think it could be done.

did you wear a helmet? :D

[Tony De Masi]

Nice save Steve. Now the flood gates of ideas will certainly begin to flow.

Tony

[Jim Underwood]

Now isn't that a more interesting piece than one of clear white oak?:cool:


Good job!:)

[Tim A. Mitchell]

Looks great, glad yuo decided to go ahead.

Shouldn't the bottom read: W. Oak / Epoxy

[Paul Engle]

Like hitting the wall at 400 ft.... nice work!!!!

[Bill Embrey]

Great save... that's a bowl with some character ;)

[Ben Gastfriend]

Nice job saving this one! It looks really great. I'd call it a masterpiece!

[Tom Sherman]

Great save, nice way to bring this one back from the fire.

[Steve Campbell]

Thanks for all the kind words. It was kind of fun and a little bit scary.
Jeffery I didn't use the helmet but I did stand back till I got comfortable with it. I did have to stop a couple times and do some filling along the way.
Thanks again all.

Steve

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Steve....2 years ago when I first started turning Raymond Overman sent me some wet cherry to turn into NEs. Here locally we don't have a lot of hardwoods......The first one I turned had a nice sized deficite in it. The 2nd one had what people who saw the photos here called wind shake or ring shake?.....At Raymond's suggestion I used epoxy and some 20+ year old instant coffee. I repaired it and finish turned it. My MIL was visiting from Illinois at the time and fell it love it. It resides in Illinois now.

Nicely done. The epoxy turns smooth as silk. The coloring looks great! You did a bang up job!