Bigger bowls come from large trees with solid wood. Dennis picked up sections of a big hard maple from Missouri two years ago. He rough-turned the bowls and let them dry two years. The finish turned bowls have uniform wall thicknesses. The inlaid bands are turquoise, malachite, lapis, and pipestone.
How simple the form, and how varied the shape! One of these captures and holds its contents, and the other opens out to the dome of the sky. They are 15-17″ in diameter:
