A Nice Black Cherry Soup Bowl shape

[James Combs]

Here is something I started working on years ago. I had rough turned this bowl probably 2-3 yrs ago to about 3/8" thick walls. I remember that the wood was way too moist to finish turn so I threw it under my work bench and it has been drying every since. It was most likely dry enough 3-4 months after I tossed it under the bench but I more or less forgot about. Anyway I grabbed it out from under the bench last week in between ornamental bird houses and finished it up. It is Black Cherry crotch or burl, don't recall which, most likely crotch because I don't recall ever having any BC Burls. It has a nice soup bowl shape, about 5.5" across and is finished with Watco Natural wood finish. I may buff it later but I like the current look.

Side views: I think I need to adjust my photo editors color saturation, these are a little overdone.
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Color seems a little more accurate in these two photos.
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Thanks for looking and always appreciate C&C.

[Mike Willeson]

Beautiful bowl. Love the simple shape and the color.

[daryl moses]

Good looking bowl James. Some very nice figure in that wood.

[James Combs]

Beautiful bowl. Love the simple shape and the color.

Thanks for looking and commenting Mike. Simple was my initial thought when I started turning it a few years back.

Good looking bowl James. Some very nice figure in that wood.

Thanks Daryl, really appreciate you looking and commenting. When I first started turn it, it was very wet and all that figure created a lot of tear-out fuzz. Upside down it looked a lot like a coconut that just had it's hull removed. Or maybe a teddy bears head. lol anyway it was very fuzzy.