Some love walnut, others ambrosia maple, me I love cedar- how is smells, its multiple layers of color throughout the wood, the surprise when cutting open a log or slab.
This salad bowl is rich with Sierra Nevada history taken after an enormous fire took out hundreds and hundreds of acres of ancient forest. Burnt and looking like it would barely be worth cutting up for fire wood once I cut into this old old burnt up tree beyond the outside layers its interior was incredible.
The largest under taking yet for me in over blank size - my lathe is an 18/36 this was turned from a log of 20”
15” x 4” I am pleased to present another in my cedar series.
Finished in a mineral oil soak and then beeswax burnished and finished in lemon oil.
