Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Silver Maple Vessel

Our friends Bob and Pat had a Silver Maple taken down in their back yard recently and asked me to turn something for them from a piece that they had saved.  Since it had a flare out at the base I decided to try to keep that more or less intact, and turned this vase-like end grain vessel, instead of cutting the piece in two and turning a couple bowls.  What with the extensive bark interstices it ended up pretty interesting.  Bob and Pat liked it. 


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