Afzelia Bowl

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Jennifer@Indy.USA

>Gary, this is really awesome! I love the design of the bowl and the burning is fantstic. What a great idea for a burning tool! Did you map it out to make sure that all the rings would be evenly spaced, or did you just go for it. Sometimes I find that the layout is somewhat difficult on stuff like this.

Beautiful piece!

Jennifer

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Mike Schwing from Md.

>Now there's some inspiration for ya! Your work never ceases to impress Gary. Very creative, wonderfully executed.

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pfduffy

>Gary, very beautiful bowl. Wonderous end result. Fantastic execution. Phil

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Gary Ljostad

>Jennifer, I did a rough layout just to see if it would work out. The nice thing about the plumbing fittings, is they come in verious sizes from 1/2"-2" in 1/4" incriments. So I could have gone to the next bigger or smaller size to get it to fit.

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Bob R WestMac Turning

>Great work. Would be hard to get a more creative piece.

Somthing for a newbe to shoot for.

Bob R WestMacTurning

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Keith Tompkins

>Hi GAry, did you use the indexing on the lathe to space the rings? this is a great idea, there are almost endless possiblities! You may be on to something here!!!!!!! NICE job, my friend.

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GaryG in MD

>Great ideas and execution. Lots of innovation there. ...GaryG

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Ben Aragon

>Very nice work, I like the foot detail.

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Gary Ljostad

>Hi Keith. The burning was done off the lathe. I made a articulated carving vice that will accept my chuck. I used a devider to do a rough layout. I new it would be very close by figuring the circumference of the bowl at the mid point of the rim.

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Craig Daymon

>Very, very nice job Gary. VEry cool idea and executed extremely well. I'm thinking it might have come out a little odd if you hadn't gone with such a uniform pattern, but you did it great.

I'll have to pull up a drawing program and make some circles and see what kind of designs I can come up with.

-Craig

(Oh yeah, and the shape of the bowl and finish are outstanding as well. It's hard typing with 2 thumbs way up!)

Niiice!

Dominic Greco in Richboro, PA

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Gary,

Well done! I really love the shape. The scorched/burned accents really work well on this bowl.

I just read through the other posts here and found out how you managed to burn those circles so consistently. Your use of copper pipe as a brand was inspired! It opens up a whole area of possibilities. Copper is so soft, you could use a Dremel and "carve" you own design for a brand.

See ya around,

Dominic