I just hit the one year anniversary of when I began turning, recently, so wanted to turn a piece that has been sitting for awhile since it was green turned. It is such an exceptional piece of wood, that I wanted to make sure it turned out the best possible, with the skills I've aquired so far......I tend to be more of a lurker around the forum and always soaking up the good info on here, but thought this piece was worthy of a post.
I was very fortunate to be given a white birch burl late last winter and was blown away by the figure inside when I roughed it out.......
Into paper bags it went and was finally ready to be finished a couple weeks ago........It's a bit of a "cheater" hollow form with the walnut collar, but I'm very happy with it.
It's 8.5" diameter and 6" tall, finished with Danish oil and buffed......Walls are still about 1/4" thick