With a family celebration and barbecue coming up the next day I wanted to turn a cheese dip bowl.
There was a suitable bowl blank in the shed, camphor laurel timber, no splits and sound.
It was from a young branch about 200mm in length and nearly that diameter. Being young timber there wasn't much heart wood to give colour so I opted to make the bark side the top with a natural edge. the bottom of the bowl being near the centre of the log.
So I set to and prepared the timber for mounting with a worm screw on the lathe.
The fairly dry timber turned nicely, leaving a good finish from a freshly sharpened bowl gouge, with a minimum of shear scraping on the end grain near the rim. A light touch with fine sand paper, some flax seed oil as finish, and that was it.
Then I set about making some yogurt cheese to use as dip in my new cheese dip bowl at the coming barby. Cheese dip and Jatz biscuits!
In a coming photo story I'll show and tell how to Make Yogurt Cheese.