Simple cherry bowl

[fuzzyturns]

OK, I did listen. So this really is a very simple bowl from wild cherry. It ended up a bit thinner than anticipated, as it got knocked around the workshop a bit and I needed to remove some rather deep scratches, resulting wall thickness between 1/4 and 1/3 of an inch. Diameter is about 9".  Finished with danish oil. All C&C welcome.

[Les Symonds]

There's a good depth of colour in that piece and the simplicity of the shape is right for it.....lets the eye concentrate on the grain instead of the form.

Les

[georg]

 You have captured the grain pattern very well in this functional bowl
  Well turned and finished
   Kind regards
   Tony & Di

[Bryan Milham]

Cherry is not my favourite wood, even free. Though I've yet to see any with a grain so pronounced or coloured as this. If it could all look like this it would be a far nicer wood.

Good turning and finish as well.

[GBF]

Nice form but is that sanding marks by the foot or is it the picture .

Regards George

[fuzzyturns]

It's neither, it's some strange grain pattern in the wood. I presume you are referring to the odd, dull-looking patches around the highlight?

[GBF]

The bit that is dull by the base that goes against the grain on the second pic.
Thank you for explaining.

Regards George

[seventhdevil]

this patternation is usually referred to as olive cherry i assume because it superficially looks similar to the olive markings you get in ash.

the yellow is a strange colour and it was only earlier this year that i was given a cherry tree myself that is completely yellow, if i hadn't been given it i would have tried to argue that it's not cherry. other than these two occasions i've never seen cherry this colour, ain't wood wonderful.

[fuzzyturns]

Well, I can absolutely vouch for this being cherry, because I saw the tree before it was cut down. It was quite a monster, trunk diameter 1' from the ground around 2'.
And I still have large chunks of it in storage. I agree that the coloration is extreme.
I have another bowl of the same material, showing pretty much the same colour pattern. And then I made another of my balance pieces. I'll post this separately, as I noticed I hadn't posted it before.

[fuzzyturns]

Based on George's remark I had another close look at the foot, and full marks go indeed to George. There are some rough spots there, although they are not sanding marks, they are spots where I haven't polished the oil finish enough, and that's why they show up in the picture.

[GBF]

Tut Tut LOL

Regards George