Mallee root bowl

[powderpost]

A friend raided a firewood pile while he was visiting South Australia, and bought back some mallee root burl pieces. He wanted them cut into pen blanks. The bowl in the photo is out of one of those pieces that was confiscated. It is 90mm high and 110 diameter. He and swmbo discussed ownership, and the bowl now resides in our residence......... permanently :U. Me, I sat on the side line and said nothing. :wink:
Jim

[hughie]

Jim,
What an excellent find/score, well done. :2tsup: Damn nice looking piece of turning to boot :2tsup:

[Cliff Rogers]

Nice stuff Jim, did the friend get any pen blanks. :p

[Wayne Blanch]

Lovely work Powder, it came up a treat.:2tsup:

[SilentButDeadly]

Hey....is that what they look like when we don't burn them?? Blimey nice effort....and the place down the road sells them to burn by the uteload....perhaps it is time to buy a lathe!!!

[Gil Jones]

Stunning piece of turning and finishing, Jim, and Mother Nature did a fine job creating it!!

[BernieP]

G'Day Jim

Wow that's nice!

Cheers
Bernie

[DJ’s Timber]

Beautiful work Jim

[ss_11000]

bloody awesome

[thefixer]

Great shape, awesome color. glad it didn't get burnt.

Shorty

[ciscokid]

That's simply beautiful.

[tashammer]

gobsmackingly lovely!

Well you brought out the treasure in those pieces of timber.

[Caveman]

Jim - yep, ditto to the above comments.
Yep sure is lovely.
Good save.

[TTIT]

Gorgeous bit wood Jim.:2tsup: I've got a very odd shaped piece of it that just won't tell me what shape it will take - could be sitting there a very long time.:?

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I've been ignoring those pix, hoping they'll go away. But they haven't.

Dang it, why don't mine come out looking like that? [sigh]

[Evan Pavlidis]

Nature throws up some beauties; stunning pieces Jim; definitely museum quality :D