Monkey Puzzle Bowl

[DaveH]

I was fortunate enough to be given quite a large amount of monkey puzzle recently.
This is the first piece I've turned (no knots in this one) approx. 9" x 2" lacquer finish.







Apologies for the photography

[Les Symonds]

I nearly didn't bother to look at this because I really dislike those monkey puzzle bowls that have the huge knots in them.....but I'm glad that I persevered and had a look.....I like it, although I do feel that the foot is a little heavy.
Les
p.s. .... I'm assuming that this wood was seasoned before you started.

[DaveH]

No, it was actually rough turned wet, microwave dried and then remounted to finish. I found that it was extremely stable and hardly moved at all !
The only issue was the central pith (around 10mm dia) that is very fibrous, almost like sisal string which I attempted to stabilise with CA. With hindsight it would probably have been better to remove it and fill with epoxy/metal mix or timber plug.

[edbanger]

where's it gone?

[DaveH]

Sorry, I moved the pics to another folder in Photobucket and it must have mucked it up on here, I'll try and sort it

[DaveH]

[georg]

  Agree with Les on this one not a great fan of Monkey Puzzle myself , but apart from the foot which I think I would
  have done smaller well done
   Kind Regards Tony d
 

[Eric Harvey]

beautiful endgrain bowl,always loved Monkey Puzzle wood myself,nice large footed functional bowl that won`t tip when full of fruit etc; cheers,

Eric.