FLUTED BOWL GALLERY
I made my first fluted bowl in 1981, inspired by a photo of a Chinese Song Dynasty ceramic fluted bowl. My hope was to create an interesting bowl using relatively uninteresting wood. The results were more successful than I had hoped. Even plain wood has grain pattern which works with the carved flutes to produce new patterns and movement. Since then I have made fluted bowls from many different woods, both plain and highly figured, exploring the interaction of shape, carving, and grain pattern.
First Fluted Bowl, Cocobolo, 8" diameter, 1979.
Early Fluted Bowl, Butternut, 11" diameter, 1981.
Cherry Bowl with diagonal flutes., 13" diameter, 1982.
Fluted Cherry Bowl, 13" diameter, 1982.
Butternut Bowl with 60 Flutes, 14" diameter, 2001.
Butternut Bowl, 19 1/2" diameter, 1985.
Butternut Bowl with Wide Flutes, 14" diameter, 1990.
Swirl Fluted Cocobolo Bowl, 8" diameter, 1993.
Spiral Fluted Bowl, Bleached Curly Maple, 8" diameter, 1999.
Spiral Fluted Mulberry Burl Bowl, 4 1/2" diameter, 2003.
Spiral Fluted Maple Burl Bowl, 8" diameter, 2000.
Spiral Fluted Bowl, Masur Birch, 6" diameter, 2003.