Shallow maple dish

Monday night I fought with that beech blank some more, until I broke one bowl I was turning wet (got too thin) and I made one rough-turned bowl to soak in the denatured alcohol for drying. It was a struggle, because the wood is just so hard.

Tuesday, I turned a shallow maple dish (5.5" dia.) and made a bowl blank for DNA soaking and finishing later. The wet maple turned very nicely, and this was a crotch location, giving nice grain patterns. The bowl blank really shows the crotch pattern well. In a day or so, the dish warped like hell (didn't expect that much warping, but oh well) and these photos were taken after warping.