walnut salad bowl & maple w/rawhide!

[Terry Achey]

finally.... after many weeks away from the tools I managed to get a couple days to finish some "in progress" pieces. The walnut bowl is 12" with Elmers epoxy inlay and 3/8" wall thickness. Finish is 5 light coats of General Salad Bowl finish sanded and buffed between coats. This piece is intended to indeed hold salad .

Spalted maple bowl is 10 1/2" and finished the same way plus R/wax buffed. The bowl was nice w/o the rawhide, but I decided to try this out just for fun. I have some other patterns in mind to try again sometime.

Terry

[Baxter Smith]

Those are nice bowls with very creative ways of dressing them up!

[Gary Max]

Heck I like the salad forks---those are very cool. Are they a pattern or your design??

[charlie knighton]

very nice....

[Allen Neighbors]

Love those bowls... the leather dressing is cool. The contrast on the walnut bowl is really nice. Salad forks? Great handles for a shaky old guy! Well done!

[Terry Achey]

Gary,

I traced the design for the salad forks quite some time ago and then made these from cherry. I kept a pair for a pattern, too. Easy to make and popular with the ladies .

Terry

[Wayne Bower]

Nice work. I like the use of other materials to accent the wood. Very cool.

[David E Keller]

The whole lot looks good to me... both bowls and the salad utensils.

How did you complete the rawhide ends? I keep looking at the photos, but I can't find where it starts/stops?

[Jim Mahan]

Incredible

[James Combs]

Very nicely done on both bowls. Very unique. How about the salad forks would you consider posting the pattern?

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking bowls. Salad forks look pretty neat.

[Mark Hubl]

Very nice bowls. That piece of walnut is wonderful. Love the leather and maple, way cool.

[Richard Madison]

Very nice work and what David said (where are the ends?).

[Michelle Rich]

I like the slanting rawhide..makes the bowl very appealing

[John Keeton]

Terry, while I like both, the walnut is the clear winner for me! Beautiful piece of wood, and I like the contrast of the epoxy ring.

The rawhide is a neat idea, and looks good on the maple. I wonder what it would do if recessed to be flush with the surface? Of course, that would be a BUNCH of carving, but might be interesting.