Shellawax <\/a>which kept the yellow color of the wood quite nicely and yet provided a decent shine. Yellow Birch isn’t dramatic in appearance, especially not this piece of sapwood and I didn’t want to attempt to “dress it up” to appear fancier or more colorful than it actually is. I chose to let the wood speak for itself on its own merits.<\/p>\nOverall, I am pleased with the outcome. This Yellow Birch bowl is relatively plain when compared to bowls made from many of the more colorful tropical woods, but I think there is a place for a plain wood bowl that can still be attractive while being simple. This is just such a plain but beautiful piece in my opinion. I would work with Yellow Birch again, especially if it featured figure since it was quite easy to handle.<\/p>\n
As always, I wish all my readers a great experience in whatever their wood working interests happen to be and to those who like working with lathes especially, do a good turn today!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The piece turned quite easily although being a softer wood, about the same hardness as white oak, it did have some pretty rough end grain issues on the flat sides, but this was mostly absent wherever cut at an angle. Therefore, the sloping sides of the outside of the bowl were easy to smooth, but the outer most edges both inside and out required considerably more work. The wood cut easily and mostly cleanly provided that light cuts were made to clean up after the larger cuts, but this is true of most woods. Sanding was quite easy since the wood is relatively soft and any problem areas were quickly removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,138,139,130],"tags":[154,171,181,183,200,204,210,217,239,240,241,247,252],"yoast_head":"\n
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