The Gallery Wants Production Not Patience
The gallery wants twelve bowls by spring. I make one a week if the wood cooperates. I rushed a piece. It cracked in the kiln room humidity. Patience is not a...
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Turned a Bowl From Wood My Father Saved
My father died two years ago. I found a blank of teak he had set aside. It smelled like his shop. My hands shook on the gouge. The bowl is imperfect. It sits...
The Hole Is Part of the Bowl
A woodturner leaves a natural void in a mesquite bowl rather than filling it — and finds that absence can be the most honest part of what remains.