Bocote bowl

**LCHIEN** · 07-12-2005, 02:21 AM

quote:Originally posted by gerti

A while ago I was wandering through a local Woodcraft wood section admiring the woods, when a piece of wood in the cutoff box caught my eye. It had a lot of sap wood, that is probably why it was left behind. I thought the contrast of the sap wood and the heart wood was quite interesting. And it was cheap...

Today while looking for something to 'grab me' I came across that piece of wood. I am pretty sure it is Bocote, and the slightly sweet-spicy scent while turning it seemed to confirm that. I decided to not try and work around the sap wood, but rather celebrate it:

The bottom has a really crazy figure to it. I finished it, a task greatly simplified thanks to a Longworth chuck (http://www.bt3central.com/forum/topi...TOPIC_ID=18506).

Hope you like it as much as I do...

Gerd

Crazy figure, good creative use of it!

**monte** · 07-12-2005, 05:38 AM

Came out beautiful Gerd!

**Ken Massingale** · 07-12-2005, 07:34 AM

Absolutely beautiful wood, and a real fine job on it, Gerd.
ken

**Doug Jones** · 07-12-2005, 11:11 AM

That is really wild looking, I like it.
Any chance of a picture looking straight down into the bowl?

**mater** · 07-12-2005, 11:21 AM

That is beautiful work.

**Whaler** · 07-12-2005, 12:16 PM

Beautiful work Gerd. I love Bocote.

**mudder** · 07-12-2005, 12:48 PM

Yessir that is indeed Bocote.

It is also something else.......It is one very fine looking bowl that deserves the highest praise that I can give......

Ready for it?

Wait..... Here comes.............

YOU SUCK!

**Tom Miller** · 07-12-2005, 02:46 PM

And just where exactly is this magical cutoff box??? Rest assured, by the time I got there some industrious salesperson would have had a coat of wax and a $35 price tag on that piece.

You really did it justice. I'm nowhere near the point of worrying about removing all signs of chucking. I'm still tickled pink when the piece doesn't explode off the lathe. (Like you said in the Longworth thread, "catch and release".)

Regards,
Tom

**boblon** · 07-12-2005, 03:15 PM

Looks great. Nice work.

BobL.

**Jim Ketron** · 07-12-2005, 04:25 PM

Awesome Bowl! Great Job!

**Dick Parr** · 07-12-2005, 06:00 PM

I sure wish our Woodcraft had a cutoff box.

You did a wonderful job with the wood and really brought out what was in it.

Beautiful job.

**kwgeorge** · 07-12-2005, 06:21 PM

I also bought a blank of that from Woodcraft and have not used it yet.
I like the shape of your bowl. Very well done.

**gerti** · 07-12-2005, 07:05 PM

Thanks all!

Mudder, that praise goes right on my wall!

quote:Originally posted by Doug Jones

That is really wild looking, I like it.
Any chance of a picture looking straight down into the bowl?

Easier said than done... Reflections make that tough, at least without building a lighting tent. Here is the best I could come up with:

quote:Originally posted by Tom Miller

And just where exactly is this magical cutoff box??? Rest assured, by the time I got there some industrious salesperson would have had a coat of wax and a $35 price tag on that piece.

I guess I got lucky. They had a similar looking turning blank, less than half the size, for a higher price... My cutoff had a few hairline cracks though, maybe that's why. In the photo above you can just barely make them out on the rim, just after the 3 o'clock and at the 8 o'clock position.

quote:
You really did it justice. I'm nowhere near the point of worrying about removing all signs of chucking. I'm still tickled pink when the piece doesn't explode off the lathe. (Like you said in the Longworth thread, "catch and release".)

I still do that (catch and release that is). But a lot of practice really helps, and it happens a lot less these days. You'll see!

Gerd

Bocote bowl

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