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This bowl has been in process for seven months – more if you count time from harvest to when I started roughing the wood. When I started turning, my plan was to experiment with a project cut in half and reassembled. My wood was still very green or wet and needed to dry before final turning.

As I coated it with sealer, I did not think the profile looked very good and thought it might be better just to turn it into a typical bowl. However, as it dried, it also cracked in some end grain. Then the choice became firewood or go back to plan A and cut through the crack. It took seven months before I was sure it was dry.

Now when dry, I approached it as I would another green turned bowl until it was time to turn the foot. Then I sawed it in half and glued the two halves back together but at the rim. Then after the glue dried, more sawing and a lot of sanding before finishing with lacquer.

Despite my early concerns with the shape, the bowl is a good profile and I would turn another the same way in the future. It is Cherry, 5x6x2.

Enjoy!