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It sure looks fine. Hope it doesn't crack when it dries out.

There was a long article on "food safe" finishes in American Woodturner a couple of years back, Jay. The conclusion was that any finish is food safe, once it has hardened completely. The unsafe part is the various thinners. They even got one of the companies that market " food safe" salad bowl...

Thanks for all the kind words. In this case, though, it was the wood, not the turner that made a difference. As for finishing, I use Danish oil, of course:lol::lol: But a special one. I taught a woodturning seminar some years back. Among the attending turners were a retired chemist, who had...

About 1½ years ago a forwarder driver dumped off a large beech burl at my house and asked me to turn him a bowl from it. I roughed it out and dried it, and now I've finally finished it off, just in time for it to make a nice x-mas present for his wife. It was a wonderful piece of wood, and...

Back in the day, i could have gotten some nice salad bowls out of those rounds. The contrast between sap and heartwood in walnut makes for an interesting bowl, when played right. Turners can utilize wood that furniture makers turn their noses up at. Those rounds just needs to be rough turned...

There is a trick for sanding green wood on the lathe. Soak it in a mixture of 1/3 dish washing detergent and 2/3 water. Keeping it wet keeps the sand paper from getting clogged up, and each time you change grit, wash the object to remove traces of the coarser grit, you just used. It is pretty...

Urushi is wonderful. When I did a turning demo with ( or against) Takehimo Nakashima, I bought one of his sake bowls with Urushi finish. I gave it to my Karate Sensei this year, when he bought a house and made his own private dojo in the cellar. But Takehito told me to drink warm sake out of...