![Russian olive bowl with lid](https://i.snap.as/N08B6wlc.jpeg)
Got some Russian olive from a friend last Saturday. This bowl came out of one of the pieces. There are two cracks that wanted to come apart as I was turning it, and the shape was largely dictated by another crack that did come apart (and which put a dent in the ceiling of my shop).
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A small carved bowl made from Gambel Oak, from near Taos, NM.
![Small carved Gambel Oak bowl, side view](https://i.snap.as/xXpc3xZn.jpeg)
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On the first of the year, a friend gave me a couple chunks of chokecherry and a chunk of Gambel oak. I rough-turned the chokecherry into bowls in the first week of January, and finished turning this one in February.
![Chokecherry bowl, side view](https://i.snap.as/353SmD4o.jpeg)
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![Sweet gum plate](https://i.snap.as/DAfJ5k4p.jpeg)
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on this plate. It’s made from sweet gum that a friend sent me. I started with a piece that was roughly 12 inches square (300mm) by 3 inches thick (75mm). I finished with a plate that is just under 12 inches in diameter, and about an inch thick, and which isn’t quite flat. Sweet gum moves a lot as it dries, and I didn’t account for this movement in my initial turning.
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![Turned bowl #47, showing detail of the rim](https://i.snap.as/WB3HQnGn.jpeg)
A friend of mine in Virginia sent me some wood recently, which included a blank of “definitely not mulberry,” which he had picked up somewhere. It had pretty grain, but he hasn’t been turning a lot of bowls lately, so he passed it along to me.
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![Cholla and epoxy bowl 2](https://i.snap.as/hplEK4un.jpeg)
My second bowl made from cholla wood and epoxy, with blue, green, yellow and red tints in the epoxy. The blue is darker than I intended, almost a black, but I think overall it works.
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![Top-down view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/uV63dXf5.jpeg)
![Side view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/iqlOem1p.jpeg)
This is a bowl I made from cholla and red-tinted epoxy. It’s about 8 inches in diameter and about 5 inches high. The cholla was collected in our yard near Eldorado at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
![Side view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/D3cl6Kl8.jpeg)
![Side view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/Qs06Gnhg.jpeg)
![Side view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/GUv0J6am.jpeg)
![Bottom view of cholla and epoxy bowl](https://i.snap.as/h0ywUHLF.jpeg)
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