This beautiful salad bowl serving set was hand made from a white ash log rescued from a construction site back in December 2009. Both bowls were rough-turned the following month and allowed to air dry for 13 months before being re-mounted on the lathe and finish-turned into the set you see here. (The 5th picture shows the large bowl in its rough-turned state.) White ash is an extremely beautiful, durable wood preferred for baseball bats so you can be assured that with reasonable care these bowls will last for many generations!

You can also see that the rims are "inset" - that is the inside of the rims curve slightly inward before dipping toward the outside edge. From an artistic standpoint, this inset strongly defines the interior "working area" of the bowl. On the practical side, insetting creates a good handhold and allows the inside of the bowl to gradually thicken toward the bottom, giving perfect balance and great "feel" in the hand.

Like all my bowls, this set was soaked overnight in pure walnut oil* for a durable, food-safe finish. Walnut oil is a penetrating, hardening oil that penetrates into the wood, then hardens to form a long-lasting finish. (It is what chemists call a "polymerizing" oil. In that sense, it's behaves like tung oil and linseed oil, except that it does not have any of heavy metal driers typically found in those commercial products.)

The larger bowl is just under 14 inches in diameter by 4 inches tall, while the inner bowl measures just under 11 inches in diameter by 2-1/2 inches tall.

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