Post oak, 16.5"L x 13.5"W x 11"H.

This deep post oak bowl is one of my earlier pieces. Long dead when I found it, the tree was comprised of two large trunks that came together at the base. The large crack visible in the bottom of the bowl was the original space between the two. But as the trunks grew upward, their sapwood grew fused together for a short distance, forming what appeared to be a single trunk at the base of the tree. The continuous sides of the bowl are the remains of that section of fused stems. I left a few sections of bark near the top of the bowl to illustrate where the two trunks began to separate. Other interesting features are the many tunnels formed by wood boring insect grubs. Finally, rather than sand the surface smooth and apply tung oil, I applied no finish and used a small rotating tool to remove and highlight both radial and circular patterns formed by areas of softer wood. This left the bowl with a lighter color that I find an interesting contrast to the dark and smooth finishes produced by tung oil and very fine sandpaper.