Friday, July 30, 2021

Turn, turn, turn 5.0

I took this (a blank of purple poplar):


And I turned it into this:

 


That's a salad bowl made out of purple poplar.  Oh yeah, I made a bunch of wood shavings and dust, too (35 grit sandpaper sure throws off clouds of the stuff).

It came out pretty nice.  Yay, me!

8 comments:

juvat said...

Looks Nice!

Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...

It really does look great! Congratulations!

Glen Filthie said...

👍👍👍👍👍

Michael said...

Much Praise as that's harder than it looks.

Too easy to shatter the work into nasty bits all around your shop.

Don't ask me why I know :-)

SiGraybeard said...

I've never even heard of purple poplar. Is the centerpiece of a salad serving bowl and matching smaller bowls for the table?

When you carve out that bowl, all that wood has to go somewhere. I find making wood or metal chips is the majority of what I do.

The definition of it all is, "making a smaller, prettier (whatever) out of a bigger one"

Borepatch said...

Michael, I made another even better this morning (yay!) and then started a third but took a big old chunk out of the rim (boo!). I'll try to finish it tomorrow and fix it.

Graybeard, that's the plan - we have different sized blanks of the same wood (I expect from the same tree) and so it will be a matched set. I like your definition of it all.

LSP said...

Well done!

Antibubba said...

I am bowled over! (Dad joke!)

Seriously, I know how hard that is. A friend of a friend does that for a living.