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Sycamore Bowl
Don Leydens

Sycamore Bowl

This was a piece of Sycamore that was determined to become firewood. Many months of drying, cracking and pieces flying off when being turned. It started as a huge bowl (oh well). Even when I got it this size and nice and hollowed out, another piece flew off. That's why it curves down like it does (I don't give up easily). Anyway, it's about 12" wide and finished with Tung Oil and Beall buffed. I put the coolest gold tint on this also, but it came off with the Tung Oil. I'll have to try that again with a lacquer finish on something else. Thanks for looking and all comments welcome, Don L.
Don, There are some turnings that go south on you but if you stay with it something nice results. This is one of them. I really like the final result.
 
Regardless of what it took to get there, the end result justified all the effort.
 

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