This is from an ornamental fruitless mulberry tree that my brother had cut down. It is 6 inches by 1 inch, finished with EEE and shellawax.
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This is from an ornamental fruitless mulberry tree that my brother had cut down. It is 6 inches by 1 inch, finished with EEE and shellawax.
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Well done Toby ! Great result, love the grain.
Alan
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Very nice, love the color and the grain.
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Nicely done. Grain pattern is different from usual crotch sections. Enjoy the yellow now, because it will be getting darker very soon. I haven't heard of any way to keep the yellow of Mulberry except possibly keeping it in the dark.
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Very nice, it looks like a large centipede in the middle.
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Wow, beautiful color and grain on this, and a great looking bowl as well.
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Will be interesting to see how the color change effects it.
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When my son bought a house a couple of years ago, he asked for a natural edge bowl as a house warming present from me, so I had some yellow mulberry on hand and he liked it. After two years in his living room, which gets plenty of light through the windows [the bowl is not sitting in direct sunlight] it is still nice and yellow..........
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Nice Job Toby. Love that color and you captured the flame well.
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Beautiful. Good job positioning the grain.
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Thanks all. I do have a 2 year old bowl from a red mulberry tree that is now more of a cherry/orange color. I assume that this one will darken also.
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You did one fine job with that Mulberry! I have never turned Mulberry but a friend turns it a lot.
Sid Matheny
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I love the yellow color of mulberry, and that's a nice bowl form. Some of the first pieces I turned were mulberry and I did a simple DO and hand-buffed wax finish. The color has 'matured' nicely to a medium brown. The first pic was taken June 2nd of last year. The other one just now.
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