ice cream bowl for dieters

[Grant Wilkinson]

I was given a piece of black cherry that looked a little punky at a casual glance, but I figured it was worth trying.

Well, this is my attempt. It scared the beejeezus out of me a couple of times, and it won't hold much of anything, but my wife likes it, so it can't be all bad.

[Baxter Smith]

That is a cool bowl! Amazing how some rot can make a pretty piece of wood so unique! Well done on the "vision" to try and the end result!

[john taliaferro]

it holds plenty, i am gonna have night mares for a week . nice work

[David Reed]

Hey now that's my kind of bowl. More air than wood. Nice work.

[Bernie Weishapl]

That is a pretty bowl. Yep that was raise the pucker factor by a little.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Grant...that was you my wife heard chanting...."Keep my fingers behind the tool rest......keep my fingers behind the tool rest"...

Nice gnarly old bowl Grant! I'll bet as Bernie said the pucker factor was pretty high!

[Dan Hintz]

Man, now I have to eat even faster!

[Grant Wilkinson]

Thank you all. It did get my attention several times. The biggest problem was getting it to hold still long enough to turn off the tenon.

[Mark Hix]

OK, I'll bite......There was a TENON????? Where?

Looks like you rose to the challenge. Did you do anything to support it while you turned it?

[Grant Wilkinson]

Mark: There was a 2 1/2" tenon on it while I was hollowing it out. To do the outside, I had to screw a board across the top because there was a big punky section that ran all the way across the blank. I screwed the piece of board across it to get a solid spot, then screwed the faceplate to the board. That held for the outside, and I was able to get a tenon on it. While hollowing out the inside, I went through the tenon in the middle, but it was ok on the perimeter. I put it into a donut chuck to turn the tenon off. Of course, that left the void in the bottom since the middle of the tenon was all punky, too.

I didn't do anything special to support it while turning. I just hollowed it out an inch at a time to keep as much solid wood as I could supporting the side. When I was blending the inside cuts, I just went very easy and held my breath.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Grant - that's a pretty cool bowl! With wood like that - maybe next time you could consider a hollow form! Challenging but really cool when you can look right though them!