Maylon Harvey
12-17-2008, 8:50 PM
I help my cousin make maple syrup every spring. Last year we made almost 400 gallons. His woods are also where I get my firewood, about 30 face cords a year. And my firewood pile is where I get a lot of my bowl material. I have a hard time burning a lot of it cause so many of the pieces look so promising to make a bowl. I keep saving out this piece and that piece until finally I have such a pile saved in the garage that I have to put most of it back to burn, only saving what looks the best. Anyway, this past spring in a wind storm he lost a big limb off the biggest hard maple in his woods, probably 4 foot in diameter. That tree has produced a lot of syrup over the years. Needless to say, I cut it up for firewood. When I was splitting it this fall I noticed some it had a little spalting going on. So I saved out a couple of pieces. I turned these 2 small bowls and pen out of it for him. The bigger bowl is 7 ½ x 2 ¼, the smaller one is 6 ½ x ¾ , Antique Oil buffed. The curve on the big bowl actually is continuous and doesn’t have that flat spot a little from the base like the picture makes it look. I’m not a photographer which is quite apparent.