I've made a smaller one of these before. This one was about as big (lengthwise) as my lathe will handle. The finished bowl is 18.5 inches long by 8.5 inches wide by 4.25 inches high. It's made from 100 year old Oak from an old piano. I used a stack of 12-segment rings, with one of the rings being wider, from which I would cut the feet. I turned a cone made from those rings. Then I cut that cone in half and glued the bottoms together to get the shape you see above. The wider ring was cut away, all except the "feet". The rest was a lot of hand cutting, filing and sanding. This old wood had worm holes, nail holes, cracks and small voids in it, which I filled with black CA glue. This thing looks like it's been around for a long time.
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