Curly Red Eucalyptus Bowl

[Vaughn McMillan]

Here's the last of tonight's lathe photo session. Another red eucalyptus bowl I finished up recently, but it has more curl than most of the other wood I've gotten from the fallen branch I salvaged a while back. It's about 3 1/4" by 6 3/4", finished in my usual wipe-on poly and buffed. There's some included bark, but the curl is what stands out IMHO:



I managed to keep the foot smaller on this one, and stayed away from my usual inward-turning rim:



And one more shot to show off the curl some more:



I just may have to heed Tod's advice about driving a few timber nails into the base of the tree this branch fell off of. I'd sure like to salvage more of it.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome...

Thanks -

 

[Stuart Ablett]

Got to be one of the best ones yet Vaughn!

Very nice!

BTW, did you know that if you run a garden hose off your muffler from your chainsaw into a 5 gallon bucket of water, it is almost silent when running..............

..........or so I've been told

Great job!

 

[tod evans]

that`s some cool lookin` wood vaughn!......nice bowl too

 

[Jim Young]

You keep posting your eucalyptus projects and I'll be forced into finding a chunk around here. I really like the grain and coloring.