turned lidded bowl

turned bowl
Originally uploaded by bluepupae.

i turned my second green wood bowl (from ash) today. practice does make perfect or at least much improved. the turning and the sanding was much smoother. i'm debating bothering to further sand the first bowl of its imperfections.

after lunch, i made a lidded dish out of mahogany. i thought it would be easier since it's like a bowl, except with a lid. the thicker grain in the mahogany made the edges prone to breaking out, and trying to make it thinner to accommodate the lid was tricky. i didn't sand as much as i would have liked to, but i thought it better to finish it today than spend too much time and make it worse.

the lid fit the first time i cut it, but i screwed up gouging the inside of the bowl, and caused a chunk of the side to break off, so i had to cut it back. then the lid didn't fit, so i had to thin the sides, and I went a little too far.

it looks nice with the tripoli & wax polish.