Chippin’ Right along …

All The Bowls With Prices On The Bowls Page Are Available NOW !

 Thank you for your interest in my “Food Safe” Handmade Wooden Bread Bowls. 

   I thank all the folks that bought bowls on my most recent sale. Folks from 10 different states will be receiving them soon. I’m glad that all of them weren’t bought up as I hate for the website to be “out”. That has happened so many times in the past and to me it takes away folks reason to visit the site. The bowls that are left will be followed by around 20 more as soon as they are dry enough to do the fine sanding, buffing and polishing and I find the time to do so.

   The “Burl wood” bowls were the first to be sold – being valued and appreciated for the rarity of the wood. There is still some bowls with burls for sale, but not those that contain heavily burled or totally burled wood.  

  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. 

 To Buy A Bowl …

  Simply send me an email – list the bowl (s) that you want that have prices under them.  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 OTHER 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, most to 400 grit, 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, and there may not be many more bowls made by me as my health continues to go downhill.

Why Does “Someone” Make Doughbowls?

  There’s a bunch of dough-bowl makers around, I’ve taught many of them myself. But I don’t think there’s many in the USA that make bowls simply “for the money”. There’s just so many other ways to make a lot more money, with a lot less work.

  At 1st glance “Handmade Wooden Bread Bowls” seem awfully high priced. That’s one reason I learned to make them – I wanted my wife to have one but I couldn’t afford to buy one back then. By making bowls as a business here in NC I pay …

28%  goes to State & Federal Income taxes, Social Security and Medicare –

22% for my business for sand paper, buying trees, food safe mineral oil, property tax, shop and tools upkeep, internet access and all the fees for this website, utilities and all supplies.

Plus I pay the shipping (in the lower 48). East coast averages around $38 per bowl – west coat up to $69.75 (Washington state). If you try and chip out a bowl you can easily put 10-14 hours in it. Then I fine sand and buff them. If you’ll Do the math. A $300 bowl would put less than half that in your pocket for 10-14 hours of hard work … you may get minimum wage for all your efforts.

  I make them because I’m hooked on the beauty! Seeing what GOD alone put there for me to uncover. For those who just do it for the money, that will quickly show up in the quality of their work (or the lack there-of).

Why do “I” Make Doughbowls ???  The letters below – they tell it all…

Below is the first 2 letters that I received from those sent in response to receiving their bowls from the April 2025 Sale…

A Special Christmas Present

   For Christmas of ’23 – I wanted to do something special for my granddaughter. She had 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.

  In May 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.