Here's a Eucalyptus wood bowl I made yesterday. It measures 6 inches in diameter and 2.75 inches high. This is wood from a tree in my backyard. It was cut from a fallen branch a year ago and left to dry. When dry this wood is very hard. I had to sharpen my chisels 4 times while turning this bowl (usually once will do). It's beautiful wood and finishes nice though. There are a couple of small "checks" (cracks) in the wood from drying. I'm thinking of filling them with a gold colored fill . . . maybe. This was wet sanded with mineral oil, which I've been doing on a regular basis now because it eliminates a great deal of super-fine wood dust. I followed that with a coat of boiled linseed oil, then burnished it at a high speed with its own wood shavings.
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