Small Pear Wood Bowl

Here's a small (4 inches diameter by 1.75 inches high) Pear wood bowl, which was turned as green wood, still very wet inside. The log was split right down the middle and half of it was used to turn this bowl. As the bowl dried and shrank it became elliptical in shape, and you can just see how the heart wood didn't shrink as much as the wood further from it. Note the bump on the center of the tree rings. This is a nice wood for turning . . . wet or dry. This one was wet-sanded with mineral oil. Then oiled with a little boiled linseed oil. Here's another shot of the bowl.