Like all others, like the rim like th beads. My only other comment is I don;t really like the foot. Something much small would have seemed appropriate to me. JaHOFAT/dI (just a humble opinion from a turning/design idiot)
I'll jump on the band wagon as well. Not necessarily a real functional bowl, but I love the undercut rim and the beads. Actually, I like everything about it.
I think that this is great ... obviously a case of quality rather than quantity. Like all those before me I really the bead detail and yes ... I plan to copy this bit of detail also ... just call me John "the plagiarist" Bartley .
Like the shape/proportions Cody, if that birch is anything like the samples of birch I get here (relatively soft) you did well to keep those beads looking crisp and not sanded away, the undercutting close to the rim leaving a thin wall gives it a lighter look.
I've been camping so no computer access over the weekend.
Thanks for all the kind comments, y'all. It's really flattering and extremely friendly, too considering I don't post here much. Perhaps I can fix that.
Ad de Crom - I initially intended on trying to make a chatter tool and use it on the area between the beads but chickened out. I also thought about burning a design but couldn't settle on one so I just left it plain.
Billy B. - After parting it off the chuck, I realized the foot was too big, also.
Stu - We don't have regular Birch here in East Texas but what I call River Birch grows in the creek bottoms and wet areas. It has bark that peels off in paper-thin layers so that the tree looks pretty shaggy. I got the blanks from a couple of trees that the railroad cut down at a crossing near my house.
The bowl is 8 3/4" x 4 1/2"
I've never done any chatter work, but I understand that it works best (or perhaps only?) on end grain. So you probably would have ended up with a chatter pattern that "came and went" around the bowl.
Who knows - that could be considered a neat effect if you did it on purpose...?