I'm a pretty new woodturner, been doing it for about a year now and I have learned a lot from this forum, That aside a couple of moths ago my sister gave me a piece of pine from the cabin she's having built. Well I know that pine is soft but I'll turn anything so I turned a bowl, it had a nice shape but it looked a little boring to me so I tried something a little different. I took a torch to the bowl and burned it pretty good, inside and out. Then I took a wire brush and brushed away as much of the sap wood that I could then finished it with poly. I love the end result it has the original shape, interestig texture, and a deep rich color. What do you guys think?
Russ