Neil
Fellow
This bowl started life as a 12 inch by four blank but slowly got smaller as the faults materialsied and were then turned away. Cant complain as I didnt pay for it as it came as part of a five ton consignment that I removed from my local ornamental park with the consent of the council who had removed it as it had mild heart rot and the health and safety police had their say, bless 'em!
Anyway the blank had metamorphosed into a soup plate style bowl of little merit so I thought it was an ideal candidate for a fuming trial so it was put in a staples clear plastic box with a dose of 25% ammonia that smelt worse than the ex cat (and that takes some beating!) 25% ammonia solution, three days in the box and this was the result. Like it - especially the way the minor detail of the wood is preserved. The real colour of the wood is the darker of the two, the longer range photo has been washed out by the flash.
The zit in the bottom isn't quite in the middle but is the last of the faults - a small dead know that fell out just after I had removed the chucking spigot!
Anyway the blank had metamorphosed into a soup plate style bowl of little merit so I thought it was an ideal candidate for a fuming trial so it was put in a staples clear plastic box with a dose of 25% ammonia that smelt worse than the ex cat (and that takes some beating!) 25% ammonia solution, three days in the box and this was the result. Like it - especially the way the minor detail of the wood is preserved. The real colour of the wood is the darker of the two, the longer range photo has been washed out by the flash.
The zit in the bottom isn't quite in the middle but is the last of the faults - a small dead know that fell out just after I had removed the chucking spigot!