Having spent the day on spindles, I decided to run off a quick bowl before supper. Amongst a batch of 50 bowl blanks that I bought recently, was a curious piece of wood that was dramatically mis-shapen. After being band-sawn into a blank it had slumped, like a lump of soft clay and one side was square, yet the opposite side was 15 degrees out of true.
It was a joy to work, cutting easily despite the wild grain and it sanded just as easily, but with a slightly peppery smell. The shavings were soft and feathery off the scraper, but showed little grain pattern. I had planned to make a lidded box, but decided against it as I didn't want to hide the ripple with a lid, so it's just a trinket-bowl, 6" diameter x 2.5 " deep, including the foot.
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Any suggestions as to the species would be very welcome....Les