A knife and a bowl.

[Mark Knapp]

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.

The wood in the bowl is natural spalted birch, a lot of fun to make.

 

[Pioneer Valley]

Just wow...congrats id be proud of that

 

[Sen]

Wow, where did you find that wood?

 

[Mark Knapp]

Wow, where did you find that wood?

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.

 

[byoffcr]

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

 

[mwschilling]

Great looking bowl. Love that spalted birch. I have a much smaller version of this bowl I bought in Anchorage.

 

[MT Damascus]

Stunningly beautiful, you are an accomplished craftsman in many aspects, thanks for sharing.

 

[i4Marc]

Great bowl!

 

[thechemiist]

thats some fine work Sir.

 

[Bigfattyt]

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!

 

[JParanee]

Incredible bowl

 

[bronyblacksmith]

that has to be the most awesome bowl I have ever seen and an amazing knife too.

 

[Kevin Jones]

Beautiful bowel. Mark you are very talented.

 

[Lorien]

incredi.....bowl?

Good to see you, Mark! More smiling lol

 

[wdtorque]

Awesome!
A Beauty.
Would love to see a WIP of it's creation.
Dozier

 

[DEllis]

That's really cool Mark........popcorn bowl for those epic movie days when you're rained in

Darcy

 

[Murray White]

Great looking bowl Mark but I do rather like the knife too. Both would fit our collections immensely!

 

[Mark Knapp]

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

 

[stezann]

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.

 

[Raymond1000]

Turning a piece that size—spalted wood to boot—I’m amazed it didn’t crack.

Well done!