A knife and a bowl.

Mark Knapp

Mark Knapp

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A while back, during the WIP of my Persian fighter build, I showed a bowl that I was turning and a few people asked me to show the finished bowl. Here it is, I included the knife for some knife content.

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The wood in the bowl is natural spalted birch, a lot of fun to make.
 
Sen said:
Wow, where did you find that wood?
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In a buddies back yard, I brought it home and let it spalt for three years before I turned it. Spalting is caused by fungus growing in the wood. Each color is a different organism, and the dark lines in between them is where the neighboring organisms competed for territory.
 
Mark that is just beautiful. Pat said if we had a place for it we would be the PROUD owners of it. Thanks for showing. Terry
 
Great looking bowl. Love that spalted birch. I have a much smaller version of this bowl I bought in Anchorage.
 
Stunningly beautiful, you are an accomplished craftsman in many aspects, thanks for sharing.
 
I know this is a knife forum, but honestly, I could not look past that bowl!!!!

What a monster, and what a figure on that wood.

That was a lot of knife handles!
 
incredi.....bowl?
:)
Good to see you, Mark! More smiling lol :)
 
That's really cool Mark........popcorn bowl for those epic movie days when you're rained in:D

Darcy
 
Thank you very much everybody for the kind remarks. Both the bowl and the knife have found homes already. I will make more. Too many projects, not enough time. It's hard to get a piece of birch that big up here though.

Thanks again, Mark
 
It's beautiful!!
Did you manage to save the inside wood volume in one piece? I know there is a fixture with an arched, pivoted cutter they use to do multiple bowls from the same parent stock.
 
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