All of you that posted in this thread - What Would You Do? - are due credit for your assistance on this piece, and the next. After much anguish and indecision I took the burl down to a friend's shop and he concurred that getting some Natural Edge bowls made the most sense. So we used his Oneway Coring Rig and planned to get three blanks. Unfortunately, there was a big mushy glob right smack in the centerline that ultimately caused the first (smallest) blank to self destruct moments before the coring would have been done.
But we did manage to save the other two, and I chose to make them extra thick to give me extra practice since this was my first attempt at a NE bowl. In this case extra practice also meant my nerves were extra shot!
But I'm pleased. The Little Brother (that's this one) is about 8" wide x 4" tall and is somewhere around 1/4" thick. It actually varies since I had a heck of a time keeping it mounted on the vac chuck due to all the cracks and fissures, and concentricity was thusly lost. Eventually had to put an epoxy plug in the bottom. I sanded to 600, put four coats of Arm-R-Seal on it and buffed on the Beall. I skipped the White Diamond since I knew I'd never get it out of the fissures.
Hope you like it.
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