500 Wood Bowls: Bold & Original Designs Blending Tradition & Innovation (500 Series),   ISBN:9781579904838

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The author fails to include discriptions of the creations between these covers. It left me sorry that I ordered this book. The purchase was due from the recommendtations from members of the local Woodturners group I hold membership, The North Coast Woodturners. At our club meetings held once a month members explain how the piece was chucked in the lathe and the ideas that created the piece. At times the turner starts with one idea and because of unforseen problems in the wood once turning exposes a flaw in the wood, and has to make the best of the piece and in many cases ends with a better product than the original preception.

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As the title says it is 500 bowls. Inspirational. The examples run the range from gentle to the extreme. A good source for design ideas and possibilities. This is not a how-to but a finished product book. Recommended.

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Bought this for my dad for Christmas. Anyone that picked it up couldn't put it down. I looked through it at least 5 times before leaving for home. Great photography and very inspirational to anyone who turns wood.

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Having turned hundreds of bowls over the last five years
I thought I was a competent bowl turner, until I purchased
this book.......... Every page has work that I have never been
able to do.......This material is challenging and life changing.
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After studying this book I took my lathe and threw it off the top
of the tallest mountain In all of Oklahoma. I then came to my senses,
Recovered my lathe, still useable after an 18 inch drop.
I have started turning again....with renewed vision and focus.
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"Oh snail climb mount Fuji"
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I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves to turn bowls
And wants to see really amazing work.

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The publisher of this book is also responsible for '400 Wood Boxes,' which I reviewed about a year ago. Both books are juried photographic collections of the work of contemporary woodcrafters. '500 Wood Bowls' is a more eclectic selection composed of almost anything that could be considered a bowl that has some wood in it. This actually is my one complaint about an otherwise very well done collection. In favoring the more modern and experimental work, a great deal of contemporary work that is more traditional, and more focused on the wood got left out.

Don't get me wrong, there's much to admire and wonder at. As a struggling woodturner I find much inspiration here, and a good deal to feel envious about. I've just added a large lathe to my workshop, and bowls continue to elude me. If it wasn't for books like this I would have resigned myself to making very expensive dowels. Here the reader sees possibility and knows that incredibly fine work can be done, whether he be turner, carver, or a collector. Lark books should be congratulated for a very high quality effort at a very reachable price.