Bowl Pictures

[Tom Lewis]

The bowl in front is highly figured cottonwood.

 

[Gretch Flo]

cotton wood

The bowl in front is highly figured cottonwood.

Tom-very nice. Is it common to get highly figured wood from cotton wood, or was it a "find" within just a small part of the tree?? I really hate the trees some years-my neighbor has some surrounding a gravel pit pond and sometimes it is winter in the spring (snow like cotton) at my house.😱Gretch

 

[Tom Lewis]

All of this particular tree was very figured. I have seen some cottonwood that was pretty plain.

 

[Wyatt Holm]

That looks fairly figured, but I have seen a lot more figured cottonwood. Maybe in a few days I will post a picture of some of mine. The thing about cottonwood is you get really boring straight grain wood( in my opinion a waste of time) or you can get highly figured burls and fiddleback grain. The fiddleback grain is the same wood as in Mike Mahoney's beautiful "Mormon Poplar" canisters. Because I also live in Utah, I wondered what this "Mormon Poplar" was. When I finally took his class, he told me it was cottonwood, and I thought it was too beautiful to be those local trees that are all over the place.
Wyatt

 

[Odie]

That's some nice figure in your cottonwood bowl. I've only done a couple of cottonwood bowls, and those have been very plain grained. This one has an inward slanted interior rim and the top was an experiment I did with a small triangle file......adds a little contrast to otherwise very plain looking bowl.

Unless I see something like yours, I don't really look to do any more cottonwood.

otis of cologne

 

[rsser]

Great figure in that bowl. Well done.

Only c/wood I've tried was boring figure-wise and lousy to turn.

 

[MichaelMouse]

The trick is to use the reaction wood. I like "leaners" as wood source over straight-up forest types. The ones with heavy spreading branch loads make some great looking, though the cutting can be problematic, especially when wet.