I have done a bit of turning for other project, but only in the last 3-4 months have I really started getting green wood and started roughing out and drying a good number of bowls. I think prior to these, I've finished maybe 10 bowls, so I still have a lot to learn on the finishing process and form. These are also my first natural edge bowls I've done. Finish is a shellac, then spray on em6000 on the osage and poplar(?), the walnut is General finishes wood turners finish, and the sycamore is just wax.
walnut
spalted poplar:
osage orange:
sycamore:
Osage:
Plus, I found a house this morning that had a large osage tree blown down, so spent a few hours with a chainsaw getting about 10 good sized blanks from it. Gotta love free wood.
On a side note, while I DNA soak then wrap most of my bowls for drying, it seems the 10% rule just does not give me enough meat on some bowls to turn them true once they dry. A lot of my bowls have a deeper form with higher/more vertical walls, so maybe that explains some of it, whereas shallower bowls would not deform as significantly.