The Burl Back to Back Bowl: A Unique woodturning experiment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Join me on an extraordinary woodturning journey like never before! In 'The Back to Back Bowl: A Unique woodturning experiment,' we embark on an intriguing project that pushes the boundaries of creativity and craftsmanship. Witness the captivating transformation of a pair of red mallee burl pieces put back to back, as we explore the possibilities of this unusual experiment. Stay tuned for a woodworking adventure filled with surprises, innovation, and the artistry of turning wood into something extraordinary. Get ready to be inspired and discover the endless potential hidden within these remarkable burl pieces!
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I love it. You could actually display it upside down and show the red side and it would still be a piece of art
Thanks, that is actually how it is sitting right now on my desk 😀
You could call it the "Burl Bird Bath" I love watching you turn, it's amazing what you find when your done.
Your knowledge of exotic wood is eye opening. Keep up the great work.
Thanks David, all my knowledge comes from research, I like to be able to tell a story about the wood rather then just turn it. All the best, Mike 😀
It looks like a bowl that you’d find on an altar. Such a shame about the bog oak but I think fortuatous as the same wood base looks great! Well done 👏
Thanks Ellery 😃
What a beautiful piece this turned out to be. l love the grain of all burl wood, but this one is just stunning. You are a master of your craft and l just love watching a piece of wood become a masterpiece. This one is a winner.
Thank you so much 😀
All of humanity could take a lesson from you on how to handle it when things go wrong. Thank you for showing us the proper way to handle disappointment.
Thanks, life is too short to let the little things get in the way, these things happen so take the opportunity to try something different 😊
Absolutely gorgeous!!
Thank you! 😊
What a beautiful piece. I really love the way it turned out. I'd call it "Unified"
Thank you very much Joyce, the title suggestion is one of the best so far!!!
Thanks for leaving the bog oak part in the video. Makes me feel better about my turning to see a pro do what I do
This is real life and I have no intention of hiding anything. Mistakes and problems are how we learn 😁
Call it what it is, a Beautiful, Balanced, Burl Bowl
Thanks Damien, I'm too modest to call it that myself but thanks 😀
That is the prettiest burl! Thanks Mike!
I think so too! 😁
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers! 😄
Not very many words, just beautiful Mike.
Thanks Albert 😀
Given the path this took, I would call it "Serendipity." Another stunning piece!
Thanks Johnny, that's a pretty good name idea, thanks 😀
A perfect name for that beautiful bowl would be "Great A'tuin"! Named after the turtle that is carrying the world on its back through space ❤ Great work, as always 🙌
Another Pratchett fan, excellent!
Thanks Tom, that is a great name and as a huge Pratchett fan I agree 😀
Absolutely!@@MikeHolton
The colors are fantastic. I love that Burl the bottom half looks like a microscopic tardigrade a very, very small animal
Thanks Robert, I’m off to look it up ☺️
Yippee it's Tuesday!
Can't wait to watch
Haha enjoy 😀
I did, thank you
Wow! That is so unique! No one else going to have one.
Thanks Nana and you are right, the first and the last and impossible to reproduce 😀
@@MikeHolton Charge up on that one if you sell it. Worth it!
@@nanalefevre3670 Haha thanks Nana 😀
The bog oak was a great choice as a base ... It would have been really dramatic. The piece as it turned out is great too, of course. Lots of greatness 😂
Thanks again for the video! I am glad you are enjoying putting in all the work, because we certainly enjoy watching them!
Thank you Lornacy, I love what I do and am just so humbled that others do as well 😊
This project ended up being a beautiful art piece as much as a wood working project. Absolutely stunning!
Thanks so much! 😀
Burl world looks awesome.
Haha thanks Mark 😀
I think a small dish with that red would've made a beautiful piece as well. Hope you get another one.
I have a few already waiting 😀
Love red mallee! So creative!
Thank you Alicia 😊
I think this is my favorite piece! You artist you!
Haha thanks Kirsty, you nice person you 😀
Have you seen the videos of octopuses carrying coconut shells about as camouflage? 🤣😂🤣😂 What gorgeous wood. I would buy a piece just to sit and look at it! Amazing work Mike 😊
Haha yes I have, amazing creatures!! I do have more of these that I look at every day 😀
Wow! I'm actually a little glad that the bog oak didn't work out, but I was sad to see it split. I love the design and uniqueness of it. Well done!!
The grain on burls is very nice a great design. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks David glad you enjoyed it ☺️
I'd call it the Giant's Foot. Love your work and your attention to detail.
Thanks so much 😀
Thanks 👍. That’s quite unique,I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it. Looks amazing.
Thanks Colin, I have never seen anything like it I know that 😀
I agree, the bottom burl looks like an octopus! Yet again, you are so brave...using such beautiful pieces of wood to experiment with...I wouldn't dare! Bravo!
Thank you so much, beautiful wood makes even my work look good 😊
Good evening, Mike.
The 'Burly Birdbath' is a wonderful piece. New subscriber and very much enjoy your work.
Ray
Thanks and welcome Ray, all the best, Mike 😀
I love how you find beauty and function in natural objects most of us would consider scrap. This is a great example and statement piece.
Thanks so much Barbara, I love unusual shapes 😀
What a nice piece. Turned out very good despite the little 'mishap'.
Thanks so much 😀
That's absolutely gorgeous. ❤❤🎉🎉😊
Thank you Karen 🙂
That is totally cool!!!
Thanks Mary 😃
Great piece of work. I agree that the base reminds me of an octopus. With all the burly texture on the 2 parts reminding me of coral, how about naming it “Under the Sea.”
Beautiful bowl.
Thanks Doug, this is probably my strangest piece yet 😁
Great looking piece that has given me an idea for a couple of “odd” pieces that I have in stock.
Go for it Edward and let me know how you get on 😁
That’s unique and beautiful. It’s one of those special things that is meant to be loved.
Thanks so much Lucy 😀
Fantastic. Love these burls.
Me too! I could turn them all day 😀
A very interesting way to combine the two pieces of Burl. I love the outcome. I wpold never have thought to do this. You always give me more ideas to use.
Thank you! Cheers Jim 😀
This is very nice, has a natural kind of look to it.
Thanks so much 😀
Another beauty Mike well done that burr looks amazing 👍😊
Glad you enjoyed it Will, I have so many ideas now on this these I may be spending all my money on burrs 😀
Very nice! I knew that beautiful red would disappear, but you made it beautiful anyway. Great job!
Thanks Shawn, I thought a bit may have been left but that is the way it goes 😀
Very unique piece..beautiful ❤. I can see it standing as a very fancy tip-bowl in a restaurant or a hotel..
Haha thanks Wendy 😀
Beautiful display piece!!!
Thanks Harold 😀
I love the piece. Such wonderful grain is not easy to turn away, like the red part of the burl.
You do like to give yourself challenges, very hard mallee, then even harder bog oak. So glad the bog oak did not cause injury when it came off.
Shame the lower piece has the red wood on the underside.
Well done. As you said, very distinctive. Nice piece of wood art.
Dave.
Thanks Dave, I don't intentionally set out to give myself a hard time it just seems to happen lol 😀
Hi Mike; WOW!! Another unique 'learning experience' for us all and from your masterful self-control (at least on camera!) I see a boot in the lower half, and reflecting that, and in homage to the path you took from idea, through the creation, overcoming adversity, to the final wonderful finished piece, my name suggestion is "Best foot forward".
Thanks David, I have never been one to get mad when things don't go well, love the name suggestion thanks! 😀
I was one of those that liked the bumpy side of that big burl piece. I don't know how to do it but I envisioned it embedded in a clear resin as the base, loved the spiky look but realized it would do a number on any surface including hands..
Indeed, some of the spikes can be quite nasty!! 😀
Great job as usual. I’ve never commented on you work before but have been watching your videos for a long while. Always a thumbs up.
Carl
Thanks Carl, and thanks so much for your support, all the best, Mike 😀
Loved watching you make this one
Thanks! 😃
Beautiful wood what a wood wizard you are you never disappoint look forward to every week to see what you can enthrall us with.When you put on the oil I thought it looked like avery bad acne but that is bad.How about a magical wooden puffer fish.Cheers Mike stay safe and love you're family.
Thanks so much Doug, sorry for the late reply but your message was flagged as spam and put in a separate folder 😀
I love that you left the texture on the piece. Almost looks like coral. One of my favorites for sure.
Thanks so much Mark 😀
Would beautiful or out of this world be a good name?. Excellent job, love your work.😍😍😍
Haha thanks my friend, all the best, Mike 😀
Well done Mike - looks like a marriage of convenience to me 👍
I wonder if it's reversible too - if so you would pick up the rough grain more easily from the underside of the bowl and can see the red centre on the other piece if it faces the top.
I think I'm going to have to find some Mallee burl myself! Bloody beautiful timber!
I should have put a bowl in the bottom so it was reversable but this has given me ideas for future projects 😀. Mallee burl is just the most beautiful wood! 😀
What a beautiful turning! The bottom looked kind of oceanic wildlife to me also. I say call it the Squid bowl.
It really does have that look, thanks 😀
I would call it 'odd' in the nicest way, absolutely lovely🏆
Haha thanks Chris and I have to agree 😀
Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
Nice work Mike! I think that would be a nice centerpiece on a coffee table. Take care and GOD BLESS 🙏🏻!
Thanks Stephen, I think it would as well, wonder if my wife would agree lol 😀
Wow!!! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your thoughts as you design. Definitely a marine piece! Again, thanks 😊
You are so welcome Maria 😁
Definitely an art piece. Kraken Bowl sounds good to me.
I think so too! Thanks Tim ☺️
Looks like a bowl on a slipper. Great project!
It does! Thanks James 😁
So amazing and unique. I am glad that the fateful outcome was the use of the red mallee for the base. The marriage of these two pieces really places a focus on the beauty of the wood. And this was your goal when you started. Fabulous!
Thank you so much Wes, it was, and I love the way it came out 😀
What a great idea. Unique!
Thank you Mark 😊
I would call it the krackij bowl because the bottom looks like the head of a krackin from the sea. It's a beautiful piece.❤
Thanks Jodi, good name!
Beautiful !! I would call it "The intrinsic beauty of gnarlyness " Glad to see a piece where that beauty stayed intact !!
Thanks for the suggestion, sometimes less is so much more, this wood is so beautiful just as it is.
That bowl is just too good for words...... great job Mike....
Thanks so much Steve 😀
Kracken Kandy Bowl......
Gorgeous one Mike, well done.
Thanks for the excellent content
Thank you kindly Fiona and great name! 😀
Fantastic piece, Mike
Thanks my friend ☺️
Absolutely gorgeous ❤️
Thank you! 😊
When you produced the second burr after the bog oak broke my thought was to turn a mortice in the second piece and make a pillar with glued bog oak to raise the bowl higher, but you have achieved something far superior. A real work of art. Well done Mike !
Thanks so much Colin 😀
Serendipity? I think you ended up with the best base; the 'mirror' effect is spot on!
Thanks James, I think you are right 😀
Beautiful project, Mike! How about to coin a phrase; my bowl runneth over.
Haha great name Tracy, thanks 😀
Hmm, giraffe bread bowl 😂😂
Great to see the bog oak too, shame it failed.
You do make some genuinely lovely things Mike.
Glad you enjoyed it Mick all the best, Mike 😀
❤So unique and beautiful! And, boy did I gasp when your first black base split and flew off! I love your 2nd base so much because can still see that beautiful heart wood that was mostly turned away for the bowl. As far as a name...you coined it yourself; "The Kraken"
Thanks Audie, I will be fixing the bog oak and using it on another project. All the best and thanks for the name suggestion, it may just have to be 😀
Wow it looks like a fantastic piece coral bowl would be good love it
I think so too, thanks Linda 😊
It became a wood of art ☺☺
Thanks my friend 😀
Fabulous! I also thought that the base looked like an octopus, so I think it should be called the 'Octobowl'.
Haha tanks Dorothy, love the name idea 😁
what a great looking piece.....super ideas you have !!!
Thanks so much Earl 😀
Very nice work Mike. Burls, burrs for you UK folks, are always so enjoyable to turn. Every single one of them is a beautiful surprise. They still don't look like burrs to me. A burr is something you pick off of your clothes in the fall. 😂
Haha it is strange we have different names for them, must admit I do prefer burl 😀
Beautiful piece.
Many thanks my friend 😀
Great work. Definitely a piece of art!
Thanks so much Scott 😀
Stunning piece Mike. I was so looking forward to seeing it with the dark base but beautiful as it finished.
Reminds me of an old boot with sides flopping open and down.
Because of that I would call it The Journey
That’s an interesting name Fiona,thanks 😁
Very beautiful piece sir thanks for sharing 👍
Many thanks 😃
Excellent project.
Glad you like it Rex, all the best, Mike 😀
That looks great Mike, 'Trench Foot' is a goodun for a name :D LOL
Haha thanks Jamie, can't beat a good fungal infection 😂
Looking forward to seeing what you end up doing with the bog oak once repaired. Thank you.
Thanks, I have a good idea for it 😀
An amazing statement piece
Thanks so much Simon 😀
Lovely, I can see that on my dresser for receiving small bits or at my office reception desk area to display business cards
That's a great idea Ken 😁
Just gorgeous, Mike. Fortuitous when the bog oak broke. Well done, Sir.
Thanks Hubert 😀
Very creative. Definitely like the burl on burl better than on the bog oak. 'A bowl of two burls'
Haha thanks Roger I love the name idea, thanks 😀
Excellent ideas! Thanks for sharing
Glad you like them! and thanks for watching 😀
Looks cool Mike really like the rustic look
Thanks Wade, me too 😀
That’s beautiful!! I’d call it the offset burl bowl 😃
Haha thanks Donna 😀
Mike,
I believe you just created a new art form. I absolutely love the mirrored burl statuette. It has a look of a coral reef with those colors. There is a coral that grows on the great barrier reef that is called plate coral that has a flat top with the out cropping on the bottom, much like your statuette. Crater plate burl? 🤔
Thanks so much Paul, I used to keep marine fish and coral so know what you mean, thanks 😀
@@MikeHolton yeah I did also. Another expensive hobby with a lot of maintenance involved. When it started to cut into my woodworking budget, well needless to say I no longer have a reef tank.
@@PaulTWOS yep completely agree, so expensive in every way, mine went when I started to get more serious abut my turning 😀
The big mallee foot,love it but if you had turned the red underside you could
Have it as a flip bowl 🎉❤
I know that now but it’s a little late 😂
Thank you for saving the exterior of the wood. Beautiful piece of art. Reminds me of an old grocery scale...but yours is much prettier. 😊 Can't wait to see you do some more resin work.
On a different note: I've done some checking on the Oklahoma blackjack wood. It's a member of the oak family and is used mainly for railroad ties and fence posts. Do you think this wood might be too brittle to turn?
As always, I love your teacher's heart and amazing talent.
Thank you very much Cynthia, I think blackjack would be just fine to turn, if it is a very hard wood then you would be best part turning it when it was freshly cut and then finish it when it was dry. All the best, Mike. P.S. next video is a resin piece 😀
Thank you for the video!
My pleasure Stu
Sad to see the bog oak break, it looked so nice. Luckily you had a solid backup plan. What a piece!
Thanks so much Jake 😀
Beautiful piece! 😊 It reminds me of the balancing rocks in the desert here in the US. Cheers!
Thank you so much Andrea 😀
Really lovely. I always learn a lot from your videos.
I'm so glad! All the best, Mike 😀
Neat art piece Mike. I think I might have taken it one step further and hollowed the base as well. That way it could have been a "reversible" piece. Cheers!