As I said, lightning speed. A shallow small tray like plate.

I’m used to pottery time table. You make a bowl on a wheel, the next day you shape the other side, then you have to wait for it to dry, fire first firing, make a glaze, decide if you deep the bowl in the glaze, pour the glaze over it or spray it on. Then decide what kind of firing to finish with. By the end of a few weeks you have a finished product., phew.

So when I make a bowl, from a piece of wood to a shiny finished product in one session of wood turning I’m blown away by how fast it. And in pictures – from block of wood to a bowl.

Every piece of timber is different, so I’m learning. And this next one was very different. It started as a half cylinder. The other difference is that I’ve drilled the hole which will help me put it on the lathe, on the wrong side of the timber. That meant that I had two option, one was to make a smaller bowl and eliminate the wrong hole or keep it and change the orientation of the bowl. And that is what I decided to do. That resulted in a live edge bowl which I like, so maybe I will keep doing that on purpose.

This is another tiny bowl made of green wood from an unknown tree.