Well, its been a long week and when I woke up this morning, I decided to go down to the wood shop and unwind a bit. My youngest son loves salsa and I had a block of what was labeled as sassafras wood. He asked me if I would make him a custom salsa bowl so I went down and got to work.
Well, its not sassafras. I think its red birch, which is ok as birch is really good turning wood.
I went through the usual steps of cutting the block down and attaching it to the lathe and as its not a large bowl, I cut through it fairly quickly. Here are inside and side views of the resulting bowl:
This wood was unseasoned so its going to have to dry for a couple of weeks and then Ill sand it down and put a food safe varnish on it to protect the wood from acidic tomatoes.Im also going to be making another black ash and Brazilian cherry bowl for a young friends mother. As youve seen me make those before, I wont post process photos for that bowl.
More later,
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