I had the rough turned bowl lying around in the workshop for well over a year, could even be 2 years. I couldn't quite decide what to do with it, because there was a rusty nail embedded in the wood, and after removing it, I had a big black hole. First I thought, maybe I just turn a recess there and then do some meander inlay or similar. I didn't want to turn the whole thing off, and the wood was way to pretty to throw it away.
Recently I took it out and finally decided to do something with it. So instead of an inlay ring underneath the rim, I decided to remove most of the bad stuff, and came up with a quite fancy rim design. Then it lay around the workshop some more, and every time I had a visitor, they would pick it up and say: where is the lid for it?
This got me thinking that I'd better go and make a lid. The piece of purpleheart was just a little too small, so I decided to surround it with a segmented ring. The design of the ring is actually more by accident than deliberation, as I just grabbed a handful of walnut offcuts and when they didn't quite stretch to the required diameter, started adding slices of oak until it worked.
Once the lid was done, it dawned on me that a normal foot on the bowl would just look strange and/or boring, so off came the foot and now it stands on 3 little walnut spheres.
As usual, all critique and comments welcome.
