Beaded Ash Bowl 5245

This is a decorative ash bowl which has been beaded and dyed. The outside was treated with black patinating wax while the inside was painted flat black. It is about 9 3/4 by 3 1/4 inches.

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Bruce Forrest

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Date: Sun June 24, 2007
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Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Now Bruce, did this really start out to be a bowl, or did you make one of your great hollow forms a bit too thin in one spot? Smile

Good looking bowl.

Your use of black wax on the light ash wood created a beautiful color on the piece. Am I right that the beads are getting larger as they go up the bowl? I'm also curiuos about the curve on the outside of the bowl. The beads have camoflaged it. Did you turn a fair curve on the exterior of the bowl before beading? Or did you just not worry about a curve knowing that the beads would hide it anyway?

Great piece. I'm betting it is a popular one for you. 8)

#1 Sun June 24, 2007 3:30pm

Bruce Forrest

Yes, I do turn the odd bowl every once in a while.
The beads are actually all the same size. I think it's an effect of the beads following the curve that there is a smaller vertical component as you go to the base. ie the bead starts out almost vertical and ends up quite a bit horizontal. There was a fair curve on the bowl before I beaded. If it had been a straight constant slope, then the beads would look like the same size. Maybe I should try that for effect!
Why ash? For one thing, it's available, but the real reason is the big pores and coarse grain pattern which lend itself to sandblasting, and the use of liming or patinating wax to accent the grain. Couldn't do that with maple. You need something like ash, oak or maybe elm. Plus it makes a neat pattern when you flute it.
Speaking of flutes, notice the grain pattern on the beads as you go from end grain to side grain. Kinda like having both beads and flutes on the same piece Smile

#2 Sun June 24, 2007 6:41pm

jprosise

Very nice touch for this beautiful bowl. Its kinda fun to turn a bowl every once and a while isnt it?

#3 Mon June 25, 2007 4:34pm

Bruce Forrest

I guess everybody should turn a bowl every once in a while just to say that they do. It seems to be what people expect. As soon as somebody hears that you turn wood, they immediately ask you if you turn bowls.

#4 Tue June 26, 2007 1:59am