Chippin’ Right along
UPDATED ON MARCH 24th
Thanks for your interest in my “Food Safe” Handmade Wooden Bread Bowls.
I bought 2 Red Maple trees in December and made 49 bowls from them. Some are absolutely gorgeous, All are very pretty and ALL are very symmetrical, simply “the best that I can do”.
The bowls that were made in December and January are now being fine sanded, buffed and waxed, and 20 are now on the “Bowls” page. They will be followed by more as soon as I am able to do so. NONE WILL BE SOLD UNTIL APRIL 14th. I want them displayed well in advance of that for you to see, so you can start making up your mind “IF” you want one, and if so, to be able to compare them to each other to see if any of them are speaking to you..
After making a bowl, it takes several weeks (sometimes months) to carefully “dry” them. It all depends on the wood, the temperature and the humidity.
As of April 14th I will have what is dried and finished “For Sale” on the BOWLS Page.
For your “Best Chance” to get one … simply send me an email late on the day before the sale – list all the bowls that you would be happy with (in order of preference) and let me know how many (total) you’d like. BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE ADDESS THE BOWL WILL BE SHIPPED TO. I need to know where it’s going because all bowls with a “ship to” address in North Carolina – will have sales tax added for the county they’re shipped to. There is NO SALES TAX FOR ANY OTER STATE.
I PAY All SHIPPING in the lower 48 states (no international sales!). The quality of my bowls is the best you will find anywhere. Every bowl I sell has been sanded to at least 220 grit smooth, many to 400, and all have been buffed and polished.
“Thank YOU” to the many people who have offered up prayers on my behalf. It really means a lot !!!
Old age and health issues are really slowing me up, so there may not be many more bowls made by me as my health continues to go downhill.
The pictures below are of a bowl I made from one of the 2 trees I bought recently. (God makes Beautiful wood for me to work with!) This one is extra deep – made from heavily “Burled Maple”.
Feel free to zoom in for better viewing of the beautiful graining.
A Special Christmas Present
Last Christmas I wanted to do something special for my granddaughter. She has worked hard getting her nursing degree and we are so proud of her. She’s a person that really holds on to memories and family is everything to her.
When she was small, she loved to play in the leaves each fall. My wife Nancy and I would rake up all the leaves from a big maple in our front yard and go over near the woods and gather even more from all the trees that surround our yard to make her a nice big pile. The two dogs that we had at the time “Sadie and Daisy” would join in the fun and all three of them would have a great time playing in the leaves.
On May 1 of 2022 a tornado tore up several houses just down the road from us. It also uprooted or broke off over 60 big oaks, maples and other trees around our house and destroyed a building I had recently built. I often wondered how the big maple in our yard seemed fine with no missing limbs when almost all others suffered damage or were broken up. In the summer of 2023 after my first surgery of the year for cancer, I was sitting under the tree watching the Purple Martins flying around the houses we have for them and looked up at the tree admiring its beauty. I was shocked to notice a large crack in the trunk where it split into two trunks. The tornado had damaged the tree after all and if it split further, it would be on our house. I had a tree company come cut all the limbs off of it – leaving only the trunk so that I could preserve it until fall so I wouldn’t lose the log.
I cut it down in November after the sap went down and made several nice bowls out of it. These were special because I actually planted the maple when it was very small, and here I was cutting it down to make bowls from it and using one of these bowls as a canvas to burn a picture of my granddaughter Katie and the dogs – playing in the leaves beneath the very tree that the bowl was made of.
