couple of nat edge cherry - comments please
Mike Schwing from Maryland
>Turned these two today. They're remarkably similar, but I found the shape to be pleasing in the first one, the smaller, so I kind of redid it with the 2nd. No foot at all on these, I used an internal dovetail recess for mounting. That is something I'm returning to after too many turnings blew off of the lathe using the internal method when I was just starting out. I don't really have catches anymore, so it now works well.
With natural edge bowls, I seem to try to approximate, with the profile, the same profile that the edge curve shows. It looks like the two major design elements match to me when the top curve and the profile are sort of the same. I would like to hear, please, what you think of these. I have a lot more natural edge cherry blanks and its too cold to do anything much other than go to work outdoors. These two are unfinished and just off of the lathe. I might leave them that way after they dry, except for a sanding if needed. They are both about 3/8" thick, I didn't feel the need to go thinner.
Sorry about the 2nd pic, all but the first one suffered from "just brought the camera in from the cold auto" syndrome. Thanks in advance for your critiques, I can handle it. I would guess the large one is about 8"x8".
