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I do love turning sapele wood – any way that I can get some. It is rather expensive. So, if I can use offcuts from someone else’s project, I jump at the opportunity. This wood is about 9 inches long and 5 inches wide and 2 inches thick, two pieces. I cleaned up one edge and glued them together. After turning, this yielded an eight by 2 inch bowl. This is a fairly standard bowl turning, a great exercise in disguising a mortise in the base. Turning a sphere is a basic skill that all turners should quickly master, especially since it is so easy and a foundation for so many projects. So, in this video, I take a four inch plus sphere, decorate it with an interesting pattern of grooves and hollow it to lighten it. My bowl is finished with wipe-on poly. Enjoy.