Pine Bowl - Will It Cooperate? Can I Get It Done? Watch And See! - Wood Turning 

Watching you create is a joy. No matter the outcome. It’s the process I enjoy. The final piece is dessert. 😉

You gave it your all. The piece of wood was so interesting. I could see several animals and faces in it.

My heart sank each time the video went into slo-mo. What a shame it couldn’t get there. But I always appreciate that you take us along the journey, Phil. Your videos are much more informative as a result.

It's beautiful even before turning.

Super beautiful that’s an awesome piece of wood

I admire you for trying a very difficult piece, I know how you feel!❤️👍

I love hearing what your thinking about your process and how you see each piece. Thank you for your videos! Beautiful work!! God bless!

Video showed why you stand where you do. Very helpful.

I think the bottom looks like volcanic flow! Beautiful!!!!

Great that you showed what can happened, we need to see that also so we stay respectful and cautious!!

Photos of the previous turning look really great.

thanks, i thought i was the only one that had problems , live and learn

This is one of the most beautiful raw pieces I have ever seen. I mean it with all my heart When you turn something of this nature, you have to expect a whole lot of challenges as you go. You had too many challenges even for professional as yourself to complete this project!!! I really fell IN LOVE with it the second I saw it. It is a dirty rotten shame that Myself and all the Word did not get to see what you did for that piece. I wont give up on you, I will anxiously watch ALL your videos and learn from them. 💔❤ KEEP ON TURNING

I love your never give up attitude!!

Valiant effort! I respect your perseverance!!

Oh man... that could have been so cool looking!!!!

I looking forward to see the end thought it was going to be a really cool turn

Brilliant effort Phil. Thanks for sharing, not all was disappointing

I think you are just great, I love your persistents !

We learn that sometimes things in life don't work out the way we plan. That is when we have to let go and let God. Thanks for sharing. This is not a failure but a lesson in life.

So far this piece is beautiful

I felt so bad! I'm so sorry but you can do it with another one I know. I love watching you work it reminds me of my Dad. Your a human with a beautiful soul. Thanks for the peace you share.

Beautiful colors It's easy to be a hindsight. But the piece was beautiful as it was, for example just hanging on the wall. 🧡🧡 Carsten

Very educational.

Going back several years, during my early turning adventures, I tried to save several great pieces that cracked or fractured. No matter how well I glued, clamped, and epoxy filled, eventually they all succumbed to centrifugal forces. It took a while but I finally learned to either drastically reduce the bowl size or, more often, throw it on the kindling pile. Great relearning video….thanks Phil.

I totally agree with you about not getting carried away. God is a much better at creating beautiful designs than we ever can!

That was a beautiful piece of wood. To bad it did not stay together so you could have finished it. I was really looking forward to seeing it finished. O well. On to next project. Thanks Phil.

Lots of heart in this work. Thank you for sharing, Phil.

You gave it a true effort! Good try Phil!

wow!! it was such a pretty piece of wood... sorry it fell apart!!!

Dangit Phil! I still think you can make a beauty out of it.

Don’t give up on it. It’s beautiful. If it can’t be a bowl then maybe an art piece.

It was a wonderful piece of wood. I thought it looked like a volcano field. Thanks for trying.

coolest turner with sprite attitude FUN To WATCH!!!!

Dr Phil, this piece needs a lot of CPR! CREATIVE PERSISTENCE & RECOVERY! A lifeless burn victim into a living memorial of hope. 🙏♥️🇺🇲

I love the fact you don't take the easy way out and epoxy the pice together. The all natural finished pieces you make are absolutely beautiful thanks for sharing.

Dr Phil, it looks like a lava flow from Hawaii. Do what you do best, bring it to life! How exciting. 👍🏻♥️🇺🇲

That's not bad wood, it's a wonderful opportunity to create.

It really is beautiful. I could look at that for hours.

what a shame! I love the fact you still shared this with us

Great work Phil.

Oh that was painful to watch, but you can't win em all Phil. Good job you have lots of other wood to turn, keep smiling.

...and this is why you never stand in the line of fire! Thanks for sharing this one.

I love the comment you made in this video. It is not what you do sometimes its what you don't do. Absolutely

Amazing tenacity, I understand why you never want to give up.

Well done Phil, one of my favourite but hard to find Burls

I know how you feel sometimes things just don't go the way you want but I know you will defeat the dreaded pine lol

I was thinking storm clouds, but beach sand, too!

I'm glad you're not drowning the pieces in recin. Your bowls etc. are so very naturally beautiful or "vackra" Carsten Sweden

Phil you did a great job. So much more wood, I enjoy your teaching, and the way you look at wood. My son was a photographer his business name was His Eyes. I think you see wood the way he saw a photo shot. I lost him 2 years ago so it was nice to see him in you. So thanks for that wonderful memory of my son.

We all learn good lessons from what might have been. Like my daughter who kept falling off the bike...it made the final sucess that much more sweeter. 🚴

Looking forward to you making something of what’s left , even if does not emboldened more turning you mentioned chaired. Let it return from the ashes.

It’s beautiful and gnarly good work Mr. Anderson

Can’t win ‘‘em all. Love your work dont stop doing what you do

I admire your courage to keep on going in spite of all troubles it gives

Wow! The detail is phenomenal! Loved your talking through it with us! You tried your best. Good lesson!

Phil I did 18 ten foot latia poles by hand with a draw knife from the Chediski fire in north east Arizona. I used them to support my deck. What I learned from that was that the pitch in the pine turns into resin from the heat of the fire and the wood developed glorious color from the resin. When I first was watching you turning this piece I wanted you to turn it over so the rough pattern was on the bottom and the charred area that you had to remove anyway became the inside of the bowl. I hope you find another charred piece of pine to try this. I think you will like the result keeping the integrity of the wood and getting rid of the char. Best regards Sharon

I am a “watcher”, not a “worker”, and share your fascination with the natural look of wood. I admire your ability to listen to the wood and follow its direction instead of forcing your will on it. This is a particularly fascinating piece, but it wanted to rest in peace in its natural state, not as a bowl. It had already been through a fire. Kudos for giving it the respect it deserved.

It is a beautiful bowl bottom all smooth and shiny. It is stunning and as you say looks like the beach by the sea. Wow it is awesome.

That wood looked like it was made of lava the way it swirled around. I suppose you would have glued the part that came off if it was possible. I still think it would make a stunning piece, Phil.

Tough calls through out the turning. Yes, it was a beautiful piece of wood, lots of character. Perhaps a similar piece will make itself known.

Your determination is an inspiration to other wood turners. I'm glad you put this video out for others to learn from. Speaks highly of you. It was really a pretty piece of wood even though fire is so destructive.

Thanks. Great video. It's nice to see a "failure" instead of a magnificent final product. If other turners are like me, the blowups result in either a discarded piece or, on occasion, a completely different result from the original intent. It's amazing how the wood speaks to you and leads you off in a different directions or, simply tells you it just "ain't gonna work dude!" Thanks again. I'm going to watch the video where it turned out right.

Nature’s beauty cannot be topped.

Phil, I didn't see a "finished" product ....... L saw MUCH, MUCH more. Thank you!!!! When ever I get frustrated I just think of you and try. try again. Honestly, my finished pieces often leave a little bit to be desired but I'm getting better thanks to the inspiration that comes from Shady Acres.

Well fought

Drata. Glad yoi werent hurt. I think the glue held very well.

That was wild. Just goes to show what can happen. Thanks for letting us share in that educational moment. Take care!

I am so bummed (5.5 years later). That piece was going to be AMAZING! Stupid knot. You did everything you possibly could.

Hi Phil, on the pine piece you were trying to turn, you mentioned that your son brought it to you from Montana, and that there had been a forest fire. The high heat created by the intense flames acted just like metal forge,thus tempering the wood fibers to a very hard material to try and turn.Your result was reaching for the carbide tools and still not being able to achieve beautiful results. No worries, try and try again. I enjoyed the attempt anyway,Thanks. Bob in Ohio. 37:17

Please glue it up again and maybe add a dowel or two to keep it together. More wood glue please. Help save me! 🙏♥️🇺🇲

You'll turn anything strange. I love it. Hope you do finish it. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Phil No body's Perfect and no piece of wood is either Great attempt

Amazing, almost volcanic. Well done again 👏👍🏻

You gotta know when to hold em & know when to fold em!

It’s true what they say that some you win and some you lose and to my way of thinking you haven’t lost anything because it wasn’t your fault and I’m sure if you thought about it some more after sometime you could come up with a different idea for that piece And yes, I’m sure it might look very different in the end, but that’s got to be okay. Every day is a school day. Really looking forward to whatever you produce next you are my go to guy for wood turning videos more than any of the other Turner I’ve seen on here🙂🙂

I think it's good to see the ones that don't work too.

I felt like watching a suspense movie. I loved that piece of wood, but as someone wrote, it had suffered so much and may wanted to rest. Any way Sr. it is always a pleasure to watch your work and I will watching you each time I get a chance. GM, GA, GE!

Stunning piece; love the history that goes with it. Best regards from West Scotland

Love your tanasity 🙃💜

Unfortunate I liked the grain lines like draped silk. Hope you work it again. You are so creative I think something good will come of it.

This piece is ideal for a colored epoxy/wood bowl

The first one is AWESOME! To bad that things didn't go well I hate giving up on a piece but once in a while one has to ☹ Fire is destructive but can give some Beauty back !!!

looks like it might have been through a couple fires from the looks of the knots one of the knots looked like a heart. don't apologize for soothing out of your control it would have been a Beautifull piece. ||||

You try stuff that most of us would never attempt ...so BRAVO Phil & a tip of the hat to you, good man!👏👏👏👍👍

Omg if I didn't hear your voice I would think I was looking at my dad!

Sorry about your beautiful piece I was waiting to see the end result! Can’t be perfect every time,just keep up the good work!👍🙏

Sure was a beautiful before! Glad you’re gonna try again. I thought the bottom was beautiful……

Thanks Phil for this very instructive video, I'm used to say that a good lesson is never free. Hi from France.

It was certainly turning out really neat, disappointed w/ you that it didn't hold together.

It’s easy to see that your vision for what a piece can be is coupled with hope, but we don’t always get what we hope for. It’s good too see how the artisan rises above the disappointment. ‘More pieces to turn’, ‘maybe something can work out later…’. The piece had stunning character.

Dang, I was looking forward to seeing that piece done. Everything happens for a reason I guess. The piece sent to your son is amazing!!

I must have a great imagination, or I am plagued with seeing faces and critters in things, but that is what I see in both sides of this piece. I see a bear, an otter, a couple of kids and two elderly people, all of them gathered together enjoying each other's company. You are probably way ahead of what my imagination was showing me, but I would have loved to see it simpler, bear and otter included.

That peace of wood looks amazing!

Dear Phil, I'm a woodturning beginner and find it absolutely interesting to watch you thinking and trying to get the wonder out of the log. Failures are very helpful. Thanks for letting me participate. Greetings from snowy Germany!

You might not have ended up with a finished piece Phil but take heart in the fact that you have given us some important insights into the risks as well as the rewards of doing pieces like this. Thankyou for sharing. Denis.

Love the look

Hello sir, This is one reason I don’t sand or put a finish on until I complete roughing the complete bowl, so many people rough one side and then waste time sanding and put a finish on before they finish roughing the otherside🤫 So many things can happen roughing a odd piece of wood like this one, it did have nice character to it. I’m sorry and it as happen to me before But I don’t sand anymore till it’s totally roughed and turned, if it makes it thru that then I can sand and finish. Be safe and keep a turning.

I’m sorry it didn’t work. The one you sent your son was magnificent!

Phil I would cut this bowl in half glue a good solid piece on it and turn away. Call it the joker bowl. That is if you still have it after 4 years. I've enjoyed your videos. I've turned a few things that left knots on my head. Lucky my head has always been harder than what I was turning.