Black Walnut Bowl Project

About a year ago a couple that lives about an half hour south of me contacted me to see if I would be interested in making some bowls for them from a black walnut tree that they had cut down.

The bowls are shown below. There is a mix of natural edge bowls and conventional bowls. The NE bowls have a wipe-on polyurethane finish and the conventional bowls have a “food-friendly” walnut oil finish.

I won’t comment on every bowl but will let them speak for themselves. I may comment on some of the larger bowls. A number of the bowls had cracks or knots which were repaired with epoxy with mica pearl powders used for color.

The first two bowls I completed were a pair of natural edge bowls that came from the crotch area of the first branch of the main trunk of the tree. These bowls are approximately 14 inches across. They were delivered to the customer back in May of this year.

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The remaining bowls were just completed in late October/early November. They range from 5 inches to

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Five more (smaller) natural edge bowls – the largest of these is about 10 inches across (I never actually measured it).

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