Some Oak

Jeff Bower

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My good friend is the head grass cutter at a country club here in town and they lost quite a few oaks this spring to a bad wind storm. He told me to come get as much as I want. They had 6 semi trailers hauled out eventualy, :eek: but I only loaded my car once. I gave him the first bowl I made with it, never got a photo. :(

Here is the second. It's 13" from end to end, 7" wide and about 2.5" tall I sanded the bowl and rim to 400 and added danish oil. I textured the outer part with an Oland tool moving quickly across the wood and then rubbed shoe polish across the texture. Let me know what you all think.
 

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Jeff, this is one of your nicest pieces yet, IMHO. Great job. :thumb: I see a few tool marks that sneaked their way onto one corner of the backside, but it's nothing a bit of time with an 80 grit gouge cant fix if you decide you want to. ;)

Keep it up!
 
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