Cherry root bowl

[ken rodgers]

Hi all,
It's been along time since I have posted any work here - mainly due to family issues.
This bowl was part of a cherry root from a neighbour garden - approx 1/3.
It is 270mm diameter and 120 mm deep.
It has been oiled and polished with paste wax
Comments welcomed
Ken

[Les Symonds]

Hi Ken....right up my street, I love work like this. It's so unpretentious and earthy.
Les

[bodrighywood]

Only problem I have with this is that you got the root and not me. Very much my type of turning.

Pete

[edbanger]

Great looking bowl I'm another fan of this type of turning.

Poor old Pete will soon not be able to find any roots to turn if we all start doing them 

Ed

[Graham]

Poor old Pete will soon not be able to find any roots to turn if we all start doing them 
Ed

He can have mine. I like looking at bowls like this, they are very eye catching, but I cannot see myself going down that road.

[ken rodgers]

Hi all,
I prefer to turn roots and odd shape blanks with natural edge.
A lot of good wood is lost when trees are cut down and the stump left to rot. It's hard work getting then out (unless you have a JCB) but it is worth the effort as the grain patterns can be stunning
Regards
Ken

[georg]

   
     Well turned and finished for a difficult piece of wood
      Tony di

[woodndesign]

Nice form and finish, Ken, good to see you back.

A neighbor dis-sided she need to cut back what was a healthy flowering cherry by her drive .. didn't stop at that and carried on to hack it down to ground level. I saved the larger pieces she couldn't cutup for the bin nor made their way to the tip at the time. Now should she dig the root out ..  ..

Cheers  David

[ken rodgers]

Hi David,
It's hard back breaking work digging out roots, it took my neighbour two days of hard graft - if I had known what he was up to I would have given him some help 
I did make him a nice large bowl out of it and it's displayed on his dinning table.
Ken

[woodndesign]

Hi David,
It's hard back breaking work digging out roots, it took my neighbour two days of hard graft - if I had known what he was up to I would have given him some help 
I did make him a nice large bowl out of it and it's displayed on his dinning table.
Ken

Been there, I was left with a large stump right in the new fence line at the back of the garden of the house I then owned, must of gone out almost 3' after roots and to get down as far under the bl@@)y thing, shame was had to split it to remove in parts .. ..

The very base of this piece which I have of cherry and the stump in the ground formed as 3 stumps/trucks. I'd consider should I get round to turning it would need to butterfly join the 3 to stop splitting apart. Make an interesting piece ... whether time or weather as is maybe next spring now.

Cheers  David

[Eric Harvey]

lovely piece of wood turned into a beautiful bowl,cheers,

Eric.