first photo

[Duff Bement]

Ok guy's lets hear it - This is the first time I had the courage to post a bowl picture ( please be gentle but honest ) Ain't it amazing what an apple tree branch and 1 hour can do:D

[Scott Lux]

Are you sure that's apple? It still looks round in the picture ;). Every thing I do in apple goes out of round pretty quickly.

Nice piece. The bark inclusion must have caused a little sweat. It'd scare me silly.

Lux

[Paul Engle]

Nice work, i like doing apple makes the shop smell nice .

[Dan Oliphant]

Good looking piece. Are you turning to finished wall thickness with green wood?

[Duff Bement]

Turned it to finished thickness thru smaller opening. hit it hard with compressed air while it was running. Then I opened the top up and finished the inside and hit hard again with the air, finished sanding and put on a coat of tung oil while it was stopped then spun it and friction finished. two coats of spray lacquer and it's done.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Looks pretty good Duff! Nice form - lots of color!

I've only tried to turn apple a couple of times and each time it cracked so bad while turning that I just stopped and threw it on the firewood pile!

[robert hainstock]

Hope all that didn't scare you. Most don't finish turn green wood espcailly apple. your piece has nice form and finish, hope it stays that way. Thanks for sharing. :):)
Bob

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking bowl for a first post. Nice form and wood looks great. Only turned apple twice. One cracked pretty bad the other was ok.