In another thread there was discussion of the merits of salvaging unsound wood, along with laments that people aren't posting enough work. This is a bowl from a couple years ago. Nominally a cherry burl, it had every problem in the book, cracks, voids, ants, rotten spots, bark inclusions. Lot of epoxy later, this. The feature here is the wood, not the turning -- the bowl is far too hunky as I was chicken to go much thinner because of the potential weakness in the wood. I decided not to chase down all the small surface voids and just leave some. . .still not sure that was the right course. Apologies for the terrible phone photography -- the side profile is distorted by fisheye.

A decidedly unsound piece of wood, but it draws a lot of interest.

Best,

Dave

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