This bowl of maple was turned, carved & charred — and charred again.
Charring a carved bowl is surprisingly difficult. The flames do not want to reach into the recesses. After showing the bowl, my principal critic asked for less contrast between the bare maple and the charred maple. The second char went a bit far though, actually opening a crack where the bowl is textured around its circumference. It’s since closed up but that bowl was lit!
The inside is finished with oil & wax. The dark marks at the bowl bottom are not from errant flames but are the bark from an included branch.
The diameter is 188 mm at the rim and 64 mm from it’s foot. It is 48 mm deep inside.
