Chippin’ Right along
Thanks for your interest in my “Food Safe” Handmade Wooden Bread Bowls. The YouTube videos I’m featured in have been viewed over half a million times (search for “JP Madren Videos” or use the links on the Home page).
Any bowls I have that are “For Sale”, will be shown on the BOWLS Page, and will have a price under them! I have bought a couple of trees, (are already making bowls from them) and have some wood from two other trees promised to me, so I should have plenty of wood to make bowls from for 2025. 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.
All of My Bowls are sold as “FREE SHIPPING” in the lower 48 states (no international sales!). The quality of my bowls is the best you will find anywhere. Every bowl I offer has been sanded smooth, buffed and waxed.
“Thank YOU” to the many people who have offered up prayers on my behalf. It really means a lot !!!
The pictures below are of the 1st bowl made from 2 trees I bought recently. (God makes Beautiful wood for me to work with!) This one is extra deep – made from heavily “Burled Maple”. Other bowls will be made from this tree and should start showing up on the website probably in April! I’ve got to dry them first and it takes a while.
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.
