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Thursday, 22 April 2010

Finished the Chestnut bowl

I finally finished the Horse Chestnut bowl I had been working on, it has been drying for about a week now and yesterday I made all the finishing cuts and oiled it with Linseed oil.


I had debated whether to sand the bowl but decided against it and instead used my bent gouge chisel to finish the inside and my knife to finish the outside, I think its turned out well and I'm really pleased with it.





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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous24 April 2010 at 02:10

    I think that was a really good decision to leave the outside unfinished. Beautiful bowl.

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  2. Simon Hill2 May 2010 at 11:22

    Thanks for the kind words.

    Simon.

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  3. Anonymous25 May 2011 at 16:45

    Gorgeous! Your work is fantastic. Tell me; is horse chesnut safe for food preparing utensils? All of your work has inspired and the storm has just happened to leave my poor horse chesnut with quite a few fallen branches.

    ~Hettie

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  4. Toscano17 July 2011 at 06:24

    Hi Simon

    I hope this is not the 10th iteration of this comment that you receive! I have been having a hard time posting here.

    Beautiful work and I am glad you kept the toolmarks. They definitely add to the character of the bowl.

    Like Hettie, I would like to hear what you think about the food safety of horse chestnut. I recently made a few spoons out of it and would like to know before putting them to use, especially since one of them is for my 6-month-old daughter.

    respectfully,
    Toscano

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