Spalted Maple Deep Bowl - Wood Turning 

With the spalting and grain pattern, that turned out to be one sweet bowl. The deep bowl and a fantastic grain pattern really made this bowl sparkle!!!! It was a real joy to watch you turn it. KEEP ON TURNING

This is one of my favorites. The grain is so sweet looking. So dramatic overall. Again, you show your true talent in this.

I love turning this type of wood. Spalted but not really punky! Thanks for this video it’s been a pleasure learning from you!

Phil - for the past 18 months I have done nothing but watched Wood Turning RU-vid videos - you are one of my top 5 turners I tune into. Well, in a few weeks I will start building (actually re-building) my shop and will start on first time bowl/box/hollow vessel turning. My story (to fill in some answers) is not really good so the short of it is that I had a shop built and had just received my new Nova Galaxy Lathe and my new Jet Band Saw - when (the same week) I suffered a serious accident that included broken body parts, brain damage and a coma - it has taken this long to relearn a lot of things and I am just now getting up the courage to re-build my shop. Due to the brain damage I probably have watched your videos a number of times and I have always learned something small and new. I greatly appreciated your tempo/pace of your videos and really enjoy your patter to what your doing. Please keep posting - I still have a long way to go in terms of re-learning. Always could be worse - I could be on the wrong side of grass :) Thanks and “Once An Eagle Scout, Always an Eagle Scout”

Like spalted pieces and that turned out nice, you are lucky to have nice people provide you with wood but you use them well so winner winner.

Love it Phil that is a great looking bowl

Thanks for the tip about scraper brilliant piece of work love the video's

Am I the only woman in love with wood and wood turning? Love from Australia xx

Lovely spalting, lovely bowl, Phil!

You never fail me. Nice 😮

As that piece turned, many possible directions came to mind. I like the way it came out, much different then I expected.

Lovely Phil. I really like spalting.

Phil, this is a beautiful bowl! One of my favorite things is old maps... well, all maps I suppose, if I'm honest. I find them fascinating. On many of the pieces that you have turned I have seen ancient maps of distant worlds. This one took my breath away when you put it on the turntable at the end. I could sit and look at that for hours, just imagining all of the places shown on that beautiful bowl. Thanks for beautifying our lives with your art, and warming our hearts with your humor. Blessings, Donna

Love ❤️ thanks for sharing

Such an interesting grain, good job.

When that black line appeared across the bottom I thought it had cracked! The patterns in the grain remind me of maps. This is one to covet ❤

Very nice spalted piece

Very pretty spalting: Just enough ornamentation to satisfy, and complete the bowl!

Wonderful bowl in the end!

Thank You Phil....always a pleasure....I appreciate your technique of turning, explaining, stopping and evaluating....starting again....I am able to understand your direction and why....very nice....tm

Phil, that made a nice piece!

Great inspiration again🍻

That was a fun piece of wood to start with. indentations to include, prominent sparking and little punk. Nice job.

Not bad at all Phil. The funky spalting looks pretty cool.

Hello from 🇨🇦Phill. Enjoy your videos so much. Love this bowl well done as always. Appreciate all you do for us new wood turners.

Gorgeous bowl. I love the shape and the wood is beyond gorgeous. When you 1st showed the bowl on the bottom it looks like a seascape. There's the horizon line and waves coming in to shore. And the outside of the bowl a globe comes to mind with some continents on it. Must be my art imagination. LOL

Beautiful grain, love the simple shape, You’ve done another great job.

Beautiful bowl...I love spalted maple!

It turn out a piece of art , beautiful .

How did I miss commenting on this turn when watched it the first & the second time? I love turned Spalted Maple, it just seems to have a special presence when turned, in particular when it is turned by one who displays such empathy with the wood that he works with. You are a delight to watch Phil because of the way you share your thoughts with us in tough turnings & easy turnings alike, you allow us to be drawn into your thoughts & feelings with every piece. Great piece wit quite stunning spalting shown up beautifully by your choice of finish. Thanks for sharing, I just wish I had commented much earlier. Regards, Don from South Aust.

I think it turned out perfectly! It has lots of personality! It's a beauty Phil!👍😍😊

Beautiful bowl! Nice work.

That bowl looks great...nice work!

Nice turn! Thanks for the scraper tip!

Excellent piece Phil. As always very nice work!

Gorgeous

Always a pleasure to watch you turn Phil and that was a gorgeous bit of wood turned into a lovely bowl. Congrats mate!

Beautiful piece Phil 👍

I really enjoy turning spalted timber, Mother Nature can do some amazing work on our behalf that makes a nice piece at the end. Bowl looks great. All the best from the UK Geof

Beautiful piece Phil. I love the spalting and the irregular shape. See ya in the next one

The spaulting (sp?) is amazing!

Hi Phil, That's a beautiful spalted maple bowl! The bowl is very natural and you did a great job with it! Thanks for the video,,, Tom

Very nice job my friend 👍🏼

I love spalted woods too, Phil! And this one would make a great "natural" slotted yarn bowl. Billy

Nice job 👍👍👍

You are awesome!

picturesque bowl nice

Great vid, Phil! Thank you for the inspiration. I have a round in back, 18" dia, 24" length, butt of Norway maple tree trunk. It's been sitting on the ground out back for since Sept, '17. Am hoping for wonderment once I slab it out sometime next month. Excitement abounds!

Beautiful piece of wood ,the turning wasn’t bad either,I have been turning wood for some years but I didn’t know the little tip with the scraper,well done,stay safe.

Good job my friend. Was a rough piece to start with all the checking you had going on yet you did it.

Nice job Phil, spalled maple is like a box of chocolates.

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So interesting and handsome!

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That is a beautiful bowl and some wicked wood! Nice haul you had dropped off! I was wondering if you ever turn them while they are still really wet and dry them afterwards at all? Also I think your reasoning behind using tailstock pressure to get the front face of the jaws to seat really firm is more than grounded. And good save on the bottom by keeping your hand on the switch, you have some good reflexes there! It would have probably bounced twice on the floor before I would have hit the switch Lol! Happy turning Phil, keep em' coming! Kyler

I need some wood too.......lol

Hi Phil ....Spalting maple is so nice ....watching on You Tube many times and wish I had some ...then... ....friend next door give me a 12 foot log 12 inches dia !!!!!! couple weeks back all spalted maple !!! cut down last year . I have made 2 bowls , just cut a piece right before I watched you , turn it tomorrow . Still very wet but I super dry it very fast no cracking at all . That Howards stuff , just look at it on Amazon ...how good is it for direct food touch , how long for curing ? I know what you mean about the tool steel not holding it edge , from overseas ....I am going to make my own out of Cobalt tool steel , do not think there is any better tool steel . I have used in turning steel many times for many , many years , use it in milling too Beautiful bowl Phil , any shape looks so nice with Spalting is there

Beautiful bowl. Question for you... Generally how long do you sand a bowl like this? Thanks,

I though your piece part break an haft but not , just grain of wood ...turn out a nice looking bowl .

Do you ever sell your pieces?

How longdo you microwave your wood for bugs?

I will admit that when you started to lower the height of the bowl edge, my response was "NO!"

Looks like a broken bowl made from rotten wood.