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.
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.
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.
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 🙌
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".
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.
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.
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 😀
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!
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.
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 !
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!
❤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"
A real little Jem. I think the change to using another piece to firm the foot was a great idea. (Better than the Bog Oak). Great contrast in colour of the piece. Well done.
Hey Mike, I meant to leave a comment before when I first saw this video. At first I wasn’t quite sure about it. I guess it’s because I don’t usually buy decorative pieces, I’m very picky that way but when it was finished it looked like one of those balancing rocks at the National Parks over here in the US. Keep up the unique work. 😊❤
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! 😀
This is really beautiful. I wonder if you could have preserved that beautiful red heart by turning it from the other side. I’m thinking of the flat side down and the bowl shaped from the live edge side. You wouldn’t need a base. I think it might have preserved the red heart and the live edge could be like a mound around the outside. I wonder if that would have worked. I wish I could draw a picture. ❤
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..
I have never seen two cuts of wood used in such a way like you have done here. Pity about the bog oak but the end result is fantastic. The way you have put these two pieces together gives an entirely different look wherever you stand. It doesn't look like the two pieces are joined together, more like a balancing act. As for a name, I can only think of 'The Balancing Act
NOOOOooooooo!!! Oh, how my heart broke along with that bog wood! What you described was EXACTLY what I envisioned when you said you'd be making a base (except, not knowing you had that gorgeous black oak, I thought walnut would be a good dark contrast). I almost wish you had glued and strapped and kept turning the oak, but I understand safety comes first, and no matter how gorgeous it was it would not have been worth an injury. It might have been interesting to scoop out some of the bottom of the base, making two bowls stuck together, so you could flip it depending on how you felt a particular day. I love that deeper red, but I don't think you could have made the bowl any shallower. It did turn out quite magnificent, even without the bog oak. With the coral look and the almost meat-like burl grain, 'Surf and Turf' might work for a name, LOL
Thanks so much Susan, I was gutted as well about the bog oak but these things happen. I will be fixing it and I have another idea how to use it. I wish I had put a bowl in the base now as I think it would have looked amazing!! 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!
Once again you've shown woodturning as an art form. Leaving both pieces as natural as possible shows this beautiful sculpture off to it's absolute best. I admit to mixed emotions when Plan A came apart at the seams. 😢 ❤ Perhaps using the words "Isopropyl" and "explosion" in the same sentence was tempting fate 😂 The upsides are Plan B looks fantastic and we get to see what happens to a piece of split Bog Oak. Another great one Mike maybe call it the Big Boot Burl Bowl?
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.
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? 🤔
@@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.
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!
Beautiful piece again Mike. Love the natural look of the burl. Sad to see the bog oak split though. That would to have had some nice contrast to the piece. I would name it Earl Cole... the Burl Bowl.
Hey Mike, love the burls. I wish you would have saved the bog oak, though. I think that contrast would have been stunning. Set the whole thing in clear resin and turn away all of the excess. Lots of folks love Cactus Juice for that, but I prefer to just use slow cure resin. I do think your first idea was the best, besides the beauty inside the bottom burl is hidden underneath. I would name it Nautilus
Thanks Kevin, I would have saved the oak but I was under time constraints so the idea had to change. I will still be using it on another project so you will get to see it fixed. 😀
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 😊
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 😀
Call it what it is, a Beautiful, Balanced, Burl Bowl
Thanks Damien, I'm too modest to call it that myself but thanks 😀
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 😊
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 😁
It must be incredibly gratifying for you to look back and see the results of your work…everything is gorgeous.
Thanks Joy, I'm not sure I agree, I have made some that are a little questionable but I have enjoyed making them all lol 😊
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!!!
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 😀
A knotty wood bowl absolutely beautiful
Thanks Hazel 😁
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
Burl world looks awesome.
Haha thanks Mark 😀
That is the prettiest burl! Thanks Mike!
I think so too! 😁
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! 😀
Absolutely gorgeous!!
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 😀
Would beautiful or out of this world be a good name?. Excellent job, love your work.😍😍😍
Haha thanks my friend, all the best, Mike 😀
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 😀
Not very many words, just beautiful Mike.
Thanks Albert 😀
I think this is my favorite piece! You artist you!
Haha thanks Kirsty, you nice person you 😀
Absolutely gorgeous ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
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 😀
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 ☺️
I love it. The color of the bottom peice is so beautiful. That red is just geogous.. and the name I'd like to give it is "mine" lol.. ❤❤
Haha thanks Mary 😀
I'd call it the Giant's Foot. Love your work and your attention to detail.
Thanks so much 😀
That’s unique and beautiful. It’s one of those special things that is meant to be loved.
Thanks so much Lucy 😀
The grain on burls is very nice a great design. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks David glad you enjoyed it ☺️
That's absolutely gorgeous. ❤❤🎉🎉😊
Thank you Karen 🙂
Love red mallee! So creative!
Thank you Alicia 😊
That bowl is just too good for words...... great job Mike....
Thanks so much Steve 😀
This is very nice, has a natural kind of look to it.
Thanks so much 😀
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 😃
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 😀
Very unique piece..beautiful ❤. I can see it standing as a very fancy tip-bowl in a restaurant or a hotel..
Haha thanks Wendy 😀
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 😀
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 😀
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 😀
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 project ended up being a beautiful art piece as much as a wood working project. Absolutely stunning!
Thanks so much! 😀
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 😀
Wow!!! Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your thoughts as you design. Definitely a marine piece! Again, thanks 😊
You are so welcome Maria 😁
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.
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 😊
❤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 😀
I would call it 'odd' in the nicest way, absolutely lovely🏆
Haha thanks Chris and I have to agree 😀
A real little Jem. I think the change to using another piece to firm the foot was a great idea. (Better than the Bog Oak). Great contrast in colour of the piece. Well done.
Thanks Peter, sometimes things happen for a reason, we will call it a happy accident 😀
What a nice piece. Turned out very good despite the little 'mishap'.
Thanks so much 😀
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 😁
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 😀
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 😀
Absolutely gorgeous ❤️
Thank you! 😊
Hey Mike, I meant to leave a comment before when I first saw this video. At first I wasn’t quite sure about it. I guess it’s because I don’t usually buy decorative pieces, I’m very picky that way but when it was finished it looked like one of those balancing rocks at the National Parks over here in the US. Keep up the unique work. 😊❤
Thanks Deborah, I know just what you mean, we get them over here in some random places 😃
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 😀
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! 😀
I love that you left the texture on the piece. Almost looks like coral. One of my favorites for sure.
Thanks so much Mark 😀
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 😀
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 😂
This is really beautiful. I wonder if you could have preserved that beautiful red heart by turning it from the other side. I’m thinking of the flat side down and the bowl shaped from the live edge side. You wouldn’t need a base. I think it might have preserved the red heart and the live edge could be like a mound around the outside. I wonder if that would have worked. I wish I could draw a picture. ❤
I could have Linda, I'll look for another piece 😀
Beautiful display piece!!!
Thanks Harold 😀
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 😀
Great work. Definitely a piece of art!
Thanks so much Scott 😀
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!! 😀
I really like this one.
Thanks, me too 😀
Loved watching you make this one
Thanks! 😃
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers! 😄
What a great idea. Unique!
Thank you Mark 😊
I have never seen two cuts of wood used in such a way like you have done here. Pity about the bog oak but the end result is fantastic. The way you have put these two pieces together gives an entirely different look wherever you stand. It doesn't look like the two pieces are joined together, more like a balancing act. As for a name, I can only think of 'The Balancing Act
haha thanks Dave, that is a good name 😀
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!
Wow it looks like a fantastic piece coral bowl would be good love it
I think so too, thanks Linda 😊
what a great looking piece.....super ideas you have !!!
Thanks so much Earl 😀
always a treat to watch you bring the beauty of the wood out thank you for another great video it kinda looks like coral maybe call it wood coral
Glad you enjoyed it Debra, not a bad name, thanks! 😀
Fantastic. Love these burls.
Me too! I could turn them all day 😀
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 😁
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 😀
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 😀
NOOOOooooooo!!! Oh, how my heart broke along with that bog wood! What you described was EXACTLY what I envisioned when you said you'd be making a base (except, not knowing you had that gorgeous black oak, I thought walnut would be a good dark contrast). I almost wish you had glued and strapped and kept turning the oak, but I understand safety comes first, and no matter how gorgeous it was it would not have been worth an injury.
It might have been interesting to scoop out some of the bottom of the base, making two bowls stuck together, so you could flip it depending on how you felt a particular day. I love that deeper red, but I don't think you could have made the bowl any shallower. It did turn out quite magnificent, even without the bog oak.
With the coral look and the almost meat-like burl grain, 'Surf and Turf' might work for a name, LOL
Thanks so much Susan, I was gutted as well about the bog oak but these things happen. I will be fixing it and I have another idea how to use it. I wish I had put a bowl in the base now as I think it would have looked amazing!! All the best, Mike 😀
Great KISS (keep it simple structure) project that took very little time from your other projects.... Love it Mike...
Thanks Dale, it’s hard to make pretty wood better so best not to try 😁
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!
Just gorgeous, Mike. Fortuitous when the bog oak broke. Well done, Sir.
Thanks Hubert 😀
Serendipity? I think you ended up with the best base; the 'mirror' effect is spot on!
Thanks James, I think you are right 😀
Definitely an art piece. Kraken Bowl sounds good to me.
I think so too! Thanks Tim ☺️
Excellent ideas! Thanks for sharing
Glad you like them! and thanks for watching 😀
Once again you've shown woodturning as an art form. Leaving both pieces as natural as possible shows this beautiful sculpture off to it's absolute best. I admit to mixed emotions when Plan A came apart at the seams. 😢 ❤ Perhaps using the words "Isopropyl" and "explosion" in the same sentence was tempting fate 😂 The upsides are Plan B looks fantastic and we get to see what happens to a piece of split Bog Oak. Another great one Mike maybe call it the Big Boot Burl Bowl?
Thanks James, this was a rollercoaster but I am happy with the end result. I do intent to fix the bog oak and use it in another piece 😀
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 😁
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 😀
Given the path this took, I would call it "Serendipity." Another stunning piece!
Thanks Johnny, that's a pretty good name idea, thanks 😀
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 😊
I think you should call it "GEORGE".... 😊...
It's stunning, absolutely BEAUTIFUL......👍.
Haha 😂 thanks
Beautiful piece! 😊 It reminds me of the balancing rocks in the desert here in the US. Cheers!
Thank you so much Andrea 😀
Sieht seht interessant aus 👌 Ein schönes Teil. Mit dem dunklen Fuß wäre auch schön geworden👍 Du hattest ja eine tolle Lösung 👌🤗
Vielen Dank, mein Freund, ich freue mich, dass es dir gefallen hat 😀
Really lovely. I always learn a lot from your videos.
I'm so glad! All the best, Mike 😀
Love the video - I would name it 'The Moose' The base looks like a nice round moose's snout and the bowl is the spread antlers
Good call, I have had a couple of people refer to it as the moose 😀
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!!
Beautiful piece again Mike. Love the natural look of the burl. Sad to see the bog oak split though. That would to have had some nice contrast to the piece. I would name it Earl Cole... the Burl Bowl.
Haha thanks William and good name 😀
Hey Mike, love the burls. I wish you would have saved the bog oak, though. I think that contrast would have been stunning. Set the whole thing in clear resin and turn away all of the excess. Lots of folks love Cactus Juice for that, but I prefer to just use slow cure resin. I do think your first idea was the best, besides the beauty inside the bottom burl is hidden underneath. I would name it Nautilus
Thanks Kevin, I would have saved the oak but I was under time constraints so the idea had to change. I will still be using it on another project so you will get to see it fixed. 😀
Great recovery Mike very unique and beautiful I hope your New Year brings you much joy
Thanks Tim, and the same to you ☺️
Once again, you have created an amazing piece of art. Thanks for sharing, especially when failures in the wood occur.
Thank you very much Michael, I think showing the fails is just as important, there is always something to learn from them. 😀
Excellent project.
Glad you like it Rex, all the best, Mike 😀
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 😀
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 😀
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 😀