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!
Looks Nice!
ReplyDeleteIt really does look great! Congratulations!
ReplyDelete👍👍👍👍👍
ReplyDeleteMuch Praise as that's harder than it looks.
ReplyDeleteToo 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?
ReplyDeleteWhen 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.
ReplyDeleteGraybeard, 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!
ReplyDeleteI am bowled over! (Dad joke!)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I know how hard that is. A friend of a friend does that for a living.