I am finally getting back to the wood turning shop after a break after the 10 day Art Along the Lake Studio Art Tour. The good news is that I sold all but 4 bowls during the tour and had over 300 visitors to my shop. It was great meeting all these people but I got burned out after the 10 days. The pandemic added an extra stress since there was a constant concern about the Delta variant arriving in my shop. Everyone wore masks and avoided close contact and I ran my air filtrat

A friend brought me a small cherry burl shown in the next two photos. The second photo shows the burl cut into two pieces set up for turning two end-grain bowls. I turned these during the Art Along the Lake Studio tour last week as demonstration turnings. The gallery below shows the process of turning similar bowls from the two pieces. The bowls are each about 10" in diameter at the top and 5.5" in height. There are different ways to turn a burl like this. I like the end-grai