Three Bears’ Bowls

Among the projects I’ve got underway are these three bowls that Goldilocks might find just right for pilfered porridge.  I made use of a central section of the big cherry log I split up a few weeks ago.  I wrote about that process in this post.  This is the section labeled “A” in the photo below.

I wanted three bowls of the same size, so I hewed and planed this billet, then laid out the three bowls in a row along its length.  After some adze chopping, I cleaned up the hollows with a bent gouge.

Then I sawed them apart before hewing the outsides with an axe.  Three stages of that process can be seen below from right to left.

After a little work with a spokeshave, they’re ready to dry.

After drying, I’ll re-carve all of the inner and outer surfaces, including three different texture patterns on the exteriors.  If all goes as planned, these will appear again, finished, in a future article.  There, I’ll write at greater length about the process, and we’ll see which one turns out “just right.”