Here is just a couple of the things going on. Took the daughter fishing a couple of times. She had never caught a bass before. I don’t know how this can be since its one of the main fish we fish for but she swears she only catches Northern Pike and has never caught a bass. Well she got her first one and at 5# that’s a pretty dang nice first bass.
And I also said I was working on a black walnut live edge bowl for my wife.
This is a fun little project. I learned of this technique awhile ago but haven’t tried it yet. You use a section of limb, in this case about 8" long, and cut it in have down the center. Then you put your plate or chuck on the cut center section and start turning it to true it and get it round and then get a flat spot on the bark side down to wood. Then you switch the plate or chuck to that new flat spot and then finish truing it. and then you shape it like you would any other bowl blank.
It gives you a section on each side that is still bark. and then it cuts a piece of the heart wood 90 degrees to the bark section and the rest is sap wood. On Black Walnut that provides some great contrast since the heart wood is the black part and the sap wood is white. So interesting patters emerge. This one was also fun because I used a split limb so the pattern is even more striking and there is some figured wood. Anyway it is fun. I love rustic live edge stuff so I think it came out great. I am in the process of applying boiled linseed oil. A few more treatments and then I will take some wax to it and buff it out. You can also work the pattern opposite where the center of the limb is the bottom of the bowl and you cut in the bowl from the bark side. Thats next.
