Lovely Ash serving bowl
This lovely food-safe Ash bowl is ideal for everyday use. It's just right for an individual serving of salad, or condiments like olives, crudites like celery and radishes, or even cheese and crackers, maybe with some apple slices! Mmm!
It can also be used for candy, snacks, chips, jewelry, keys, coins, trinkets, nuts and more candy!
It's a versatile bowl whose use is only limited by your imagination.
Ash is a very hard wood often used for flooring and baseball bats, so this bowl should last a long time. Unfortunately, it is disappearing due to the inadvertent introduction to North America of an invasive beetle about 20 years ago. Even over just the last couple of years I have noticed fewer and fewer Ash trees being cut down because they are already largely gone in my area. Consequently, whenever I can, I rescue the wood and turn it into something useful and beautiful like this bowl.
And, as you can see, Ash is a beautiful wood. Blond at first, mellowing to a golden color over time, the contrast in the grain is subdued, leading to a certain harmony between the tones. The hues are deepened somewhat by the multiple coats of walnut oil that I rubbed in and burnished over the course of several days in order to provide protection to the bowl. Also, when I made the bowl, I left it a little, but not too much, thicker than normal in order to provide more durability.
Given the increasing scarcity of Ash, this bowl has the potential of becoming a treasured heirloom. It would also make an appreciated gift.
It measures 7 1/2" wide by 2 1/4" high.
This lovely food-safe Ash bowl is ideal for everyday use. It's just right for an individual serving of salad, or condiments like olives, crudites like celery and radishes, or even cheese and crackers, maybe with some apple slices! Mmm!
It can also be used for candy, snacks, chips, jewelry, keys, coins, trinkets, nuts and more candy!
It's a versatile bowl whose use is only limited by your imagination.
Ash is a very hard wood often used for flooring and baseball bats, so this bowl should last a long time. Unfortunately, it is disappearing due to the inadvertent introduction to North America of an invasive beetle about 20 years ago. Even over just the last couple of years I have noticed fewer and fewer Ash trees being cut down because they are already largely gone in my area. Consequently, whenever I can, I rescue the wood and turn it into something useful and beautiful like this bowl.
And, as you can see, Ash is a beautiful wood. Blond at first, mellowing to a golden color over time, the contrast in the grain is subdued, leading to a certain harmony between the tones. The hues are deepened somewhat by the multiple coats of walnut oil that I rubbed in and burnished over the course of several days in order to provide protection to the bowl. Also, when I made the bowl, I left it a little, but not too much, thicker than normal in order to provide more durability.
Given the increasing scarcity of Ash, this bowl has the potential of becoming a treasured heirloom. It would also make an appreciated gift.
It measures 7 1/2" wide by 2 1/4" high.
This lovely food-safe Ash bowl is ideal for everyday use. It's just right for an individual serving of salad, or condiments like olives, crudites like celery and radishes, or even cheese and crackers, maybe with some apple slices! Mmm!
It can also be used for candy, snacks, chips, jewelry, keys, coins, trinkets, nuts and more candy!
It's a versatile bowl whose use is only limited by your imagination.
Ash is a very hard wood often used for flooring and baseball bats, so this bowl should last a long time. Unfortunately, it is disappearing due to the inadvertent introduction to North America of an invasive beetle about 20 years ago. Even over just the last couple of years I have noticed fewer and fewer Ash trees being cut down because they are already largely gone in my area. Consequently, whenever I can, I rescue the wood and turn it into something useful and beautiful like this bowl.
And, as you can see, Ash is a beautiful wood. Blond at first, mellowing to a golden color over time, the contrast in the grain is subdued, leading to a certain harmony between the tones. The hues are deepened somewhat by the multiple coats of walnut oil that I rubbed in and burnished over the course of several days in order to provide protection to the bowl. Also, when I made the bowl, I left it a little, but not too much, thicker than normal in order to provide more durability.
Given the increasing scarcity of Ash, this bowl has the potential of becoming a treasured heirloom. It would also make an appreciated gift.
It measures 7 1/2" wide by 2 1/4" high.