Stitching up
sycamore? Yep, that's what I did on this
one. Of all the different types of wood
I have turned into bowls and vases, sycamore seems to me to be one of the most
difficult to get dried to a stable moisture content without a crack or split popping
up somewhere. I've started some sycamore
bowls that would have been 8 inches tall, but was eventually whittled down to a
nice platter because of this. So with
this piece I decided not to try to hide or cover up this crack, but instead to
embellish it with leather stitches. The
stitches have no structural function on this 6.25 inch diameter bowl and one
would not want to try to eat a bowl of cereal out of it. Though I've patched and hidden these
before, I thought to myself this crack is
what the wood wanted to do in its natural state and who am I to try to override
one of creations natural occurrences.
.JPG)
