Well I finally got around to making my first bowl. I ordered some cherry wood from a guy that saws up lawn trees and such to make a new bed. When he was here he says: "Hey, I've got some slices of cherry burl but they are wet. Would you be interested." Acting nonchalant I say "sure, let me see whatca got"
Anyway, I bought all of them for a song thinking I would slice them up into veneers for the bed. This one piece sort of jumped out at me and a little voice said "its about time you tried to make a bowl and this stuff was cheap."
Anyway, long story short, here it is. My first attempt and I have to say, I'm pretty pleased. Of course now I realize that my rinky dink Jet 1236 lathe just won't cut it so this is probably going to cost me...