Cedar Fruit Bowl

[dai sensei]

I went to a house walming party last night and gave the below as my gift. I only had yesterday and one night last week to make it, late notice on the party, so chose Cedar as I have a fare bit.

I picked what I thought was a nice solid lump and cut out a blank 400 dia with the chain saw. I rough turned the outside only to find it full of dead wood where old branches joined and around the sap wood. I turned off most of the sap wood and cut out branch dead wood filling it with clear resin. Due to lack of time though, I had to repair any fractured resin, and the heaps of bug holes, with CA. I did manage to use my Bowl Saver for the center that I can make another bowl from.

The final bowl was only 300mm dia and finished with Shellewax/EEE/Glow. The Cedar is very pink, so obviously still a bit green, hopeully it wont crack on me in the future.

[DJ’s Timber]

Nice one Neil :2tsup: speccy bit of cedar

[rsser]

Neat save DS.

Eat your heart out Mercedes!

[Simomatra]

Great stuff Neil nice prezzie

[cedar n silky]

Nice job Neil. A lovely bit of cedar too. Superb colour. I love the stuff, and you did a good save on it!:D

[TTIT]

Luvly chunk of wood Neil - the recipients would have to be happy with that :2tsup:. I think I'd have left the holes open for a fruit bowl but that's just me! Great job.:U

[OGYT]

Nice gift, Neil, and I like the symmetry in the holes/knot. Good on ya.
Looks to be thin enough sos it shouldn't crack, I'd think.

[RufflyRustic]

Spectacular!! :2tsup:

[Rookie]

Jeez that's nice DS. I'm still working on getting finishes that nice. Really pretty piece of work............but I'll wait for Cliff's feedback on the foot size :U

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Both knot holes are filled with resin? You did excellent work on the finish! :thyel: (I assume the pink "smudge" in the lower right knot is just a reflection and not a stuff-up... after all, t'other is nice and clear.)

Pity it'll brown off over time, eh? I wonder if a UV reistant finish (eg. spar varnish) would slow that down or whether the colour is more a moisture related thing?

[dai sensei]

I assume the pink "smudge" in the lower right knot is just a reflection and not a stuff-up... after all, t'other is nice and clear.

Pity it'll brown off over time, eh? I wonder if a UV reistant finish (eg. spar varnish) would slow that down or whether the colour is more a moisture related thing?

Pink smudge is just a reflection.

There are already a few brown patches, so I don't mind it all turning brown. But on a good piece with no defects, perhaps I would consider trying to retain the colours - but my experience with my rose sheoak (that was really red) was that nothing stops it, I can only delay it.