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:
Looks Nice!
It really does look great! Congratulations!
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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 :-)
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"
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.
Well done!
I am bowled over! (Dad joke!)
Seriously, I know how hard that is. A friend of a friend does that for a living.
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