Hollow Vessels and Urns
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Bowls are truly the most demanding and rewarding of the woodworker’s art. The bowl shape shows off the grain and color and allows good design to capture the uniqueness of each piece of wood. Phil can turn a bowl of any wood, but he searches out trees that show promise of unusual grain, burls (protruding growths on trees), color, spalting (“spoiling” in old English), or even from “trees with a story.”
Phil has been turning for 45 years and teaching for 40, yet each bowl still offers unique challenges. First, to cut cleanly and leave a flawless finish. But even more, to create a form that pleases the eye, does justice to the wood’s natural beauty, the “defects” and constraints of each piece of wood. A “Holtan bowl” tends to be translucently thin, with natural edges, often including the bark.
These vases and urns are more challenging to turn because Phil must hollow out the vase through the small hole in the top, turn it fairly thin and yet avoid cutting through the side of the bowl, all without being able to see the cutting edge and the cut surface.
These hollow vessels can be a decorative vessel, they can hold dried blowers or other items and finally, can be used as an urn for holding cremains of a pet or person. Phil makes a variety of covers that can be fitted to the urns. The buyer generally is helping to choose the cover that best suits the urn and its use.
Your care of this vessel depends on the choice you and Phil have made for its purpose and therefore its finish. Most of his bowls his finished with a Watco Teak Oil finish of oil and varnish or with Deft lacquer and are then buffed. These finishes keep the wood looking good but are not designed for wet or oily contents. You can renew this finish with furniture polish or wax. Buff by hand to the level of finish you want.
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Bowls are truly the most demanding and rewarding of the woodworker’s art. The bowl shape shows off the grain and color and allows good design to capture the uniqueness of each piece of wood. Phil can turn a bowl of any wood, but he searches out trees that show promise of unusual grain, burls (protruding growths on trees), color, spalting (“spoiling” in old English), or even from “trees with a story.”
Phil has been turning for 45 years and teaching for 40, yet each bowl still offers unique challenges. First, to cut cleanly and leave a flawless finish. But even more, to create a form that pleases the eye, does justice to the wood’s natural beauty, the “defects” and constraints of each piece of wood. A “Holtan bowl” tends to be translucently thin, with natural edges, often including the bark.
These vases and urns are more challenging to turn because Phil must hollow out the vase through the small hole in the top, turn it fairly thin and yet avoid cutting through the side of the bowl, all without being able to see the cutting edge and the cut surface.
These hollow vessels can be a decorative vessel, they can hold dried blowers or other items and finally, can be used as an urn for holding cremains of a pet or person. Phil makes a variety of covers that can be fitted to the urns. The buyer generally is helping to choose the cover that best suits the urn and its use.
Your care of this vessel depends on the choice you and Phil have made for its purpose and therefore its finish. Most of his bowls his finished with a Watco Teak Oil finish of oil and varnish or with Deft lacquer and are then buffed. These finishes keep the wood looking good but are not designed for wet or oily contents. You can renew this finish with furniture polish or wax. Buff by hand to the level of finish you want.
Scroll on mobile to see both photos
Bowls are truly the most demanding and rewarding of the woodworker’s art. The bowl shape shows off the grain and color and allows good design to capture the uniqueness of each piece of wood. Phil can turn a bowl of any wood, but he searches out trees that show promise of unusual grain, burls (protruding growths on trees), color, spalting (“spoiling” in old English), or even from “trees with a story.”
Phil has been turning for 45 years and teaching for 40, yet each bowl still offers unique challenges. First, to cut cleanly and leave a flawless finish. But even more, to create a form that pleases the eye, does justice to the wood’s natural beauty, the “defects” and constraints of each piece of wood. A “Holtan bowl” tends to be translucently thin, with natural edges, often including the bark.
These vases and urns are more challenging to turn because Phil must hollow out the vase through the small hole in the top, turn it fairly thin and yet avoid cutting through the side of the bowl, all without being able to see the cutting edge and the cut surface.
These hollow vessels can be a decorative vessel, they can hold dried blowers or other items and finally, can be used as an urn for holding cremains of a pet or person. Phil makes a variety of covers that can be fitted to the urns. The buyer generally is helping to choose the cover that best suits the urn and its use.
Your care of this vessel depends on the choice you and Phil have made for its purpose and therefore its finish. Most of his bowls his finished with a Watco Teak Oil finish of oil and varnish or with Deft lacquer and are then buffed. These finishes keep the wood looking good but are not designed for wet or oily contents. You can renew this finish with furniture polish or wax. Buff by hand to the level of finish you want.