Australian Red Mallee Burl Wood Bowl (BW125)

Here is an example of why Red Mallee is one of my favorite burl species, with its remarkable heartwood and sapwood colors and figure. It's simply beautiful. This bowl features the rich red tones Red Mallee is noted for, with light sapwood outline; great birdseye figure; the natural edge of the rim; and some of the natural burl spikes on the underside.  Tung oil varnish is the finish, buffed and polished with hard carnauba wax to a soft, marble-like semi-gloss lustre.  Overall length is 15 inches, width 12 inches, height 11/4 inches. The bowl hollow is 41/4 in diameter.     Price: $420 Shipping: $15 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

Bimble Box is a very pretty Eucalyptus species (dense and hard), as this burl bowl shows. It has a honey gold heartwood color, with a splash of creamy tan sapwood in the center. Scattered small voids (typical of burls) have been filled with a royal blue inlay (visible in the zoomed-in views). The rim has a partial natural edge. The finish is several coats of tung oil varnish, which was buffed and polished with hard carnauba wax to a soft, satin lustre. Diameter: 111/4 inches    Height:  21/8 inches      Price: $295 Shipping: $12 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

This Poplar wooden plate is one in a series of wonderfully detailed woodburnings of nature/wildlife subjects by artist Debra Silva. Deb is an accomplished artist whose talents include drawing, painting, photography, etching, jewelry making, computer graphics, and pyrography. Her wildlife drawings have been published in Massachusetts Wildlife magazine. The subject of this pyrography (woodburning) is a delightfully rendered Black Bear cub doing his best to have a taste of fresh honey from a beekeeper's hive boxes, an event seen all too often in these parts. The lightweight wood has a satin finish of hand-rubbed varnish, followed by buffing and polishing with hard wax. It is signed by the artist. For collectors, watch for more of Deb's nature and wildlife artwork on wood coming soon. Diameter: 9 inches    Height: 3/4 inch      Price: $225 Shipping: $12 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

Weeping Cherry is an ornamental landscape tree. Its wood is lighter in weight and color than Black Cherry; it has a pleasing golden glow, and makes a fine bowl with warmth and prominent figure. Its color will gradually deepen with age. Picture a mound of freshly picked red apples in it on your table. After several coats of finish were applied, it was buffed and polished with hard carnauba wax to a smooth-as-glass sheen. Diameter: 12 inches    Height: 4-3/4 inches      Price: $275 Shipping: $15 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

It's a treat to work Sassafras wood, because it has a great, spicy fragrance that quickly fills the shop. Here in the forests of Western Massachusetts, we don't usually find large Sassafras trees; most are a foot or less in diameter. But I was fortunate to find a 15-inch tree that had been down on the ground for years. While its sapwood was rotted, the heartwood was in perfect condition, and it yielded this 13-1/2 inch bowl. There is a large, sound knot that provides a focal point in the side of the bowl, and there is a bead turned into the top of the rim. The bowl has a very smooth, lustrous finish, which has been buffed and polished. Diameter: 13-1/2 inches    Height:  4-1/4 inches      Price: $325 Shipping: $15 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

If you're searching the market for a large Black Cherry burl bowl, you may have just found it. This New England beauty has rich, warm Cherry coloring, scores of birdseyes, bark inclusions, and some small, shallow worm holes and voids (none penetrate the bowl). Black Cherry is the prized species that fine American furniture is made of. This burl was another of several I obtained from the hay barn of a country woodturner who has passed on; they've been aging for many years, and have the rich color that only aged Black Cherry wood has. Hand-turned on the lathe, it measures 14-1/2 inches in diameter, 5 inches tall... nicely sized for a country table centerpiece, or a corporate lobby display piece. The finish is multiple coats of urethane oil, buffed and polished with carnauba wax to a glass-smooth, soft satin sheen.      Price: $425 Shipping: $20 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

A natural-edge rim, birdseye figure, and a bit of spalting are the primary attractions of this Bigleaf Maple Burl bowl. But its warm, earthy color; flared shape; and mirror-smooth feel add to its appeal too. A shallow void on the underside (photo 4), along with the natural rim, testify to the burl origin of this piece. A satin finish seals this art bowl. Diameter: 12 inches    Height:  2-1/2 inches      Price: $220 Shipping: $18 to U.S. destinations. Contact me for international rates.

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