Green Woodturning bowls

Our neighbour let me chop up and use the wood from one of her Beech trees after it fell down in the wind.

I thought I’d try some “green” woodturning for a change and try to make her a bowl from her own tree to say thank you.

Here are some pics of the process.

 

The finished bowls…

Back to the start – a freshly chainsawed log – one half per bowl:

Gradually making it round:

 

Shaping with a bowl gouge – lots of knots and checks to work around:

 

One nearly completed bowl next to its sibling:

I turned them “extra chunky” so if they warped while drying I could reshape them

After a few months spent drying out (covered in sawdust under my lathe), I finished turning them and reduced the thickness.

Hopefully they are not going to crack or warp… time will tell!

The finished bowls – treated with a homemade mix of bees wax & sunflower oil: