A maple Thanksgiving themed bowl

Just finished a maple Thanksgiving themed bowl - 10" x 4" (26 cm x 10 cm)

Painted with chalk paint and then aged with colored wax. Inside is finished with Tung oil.

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It’s beautiful! You do amazing work.
- Thank you!
Absolutely gorgeous work, you nailed it with this one.

Just out of curiosity, what laser do you have? I actually didn't even know they made lasers that could engrave bowls like this until I started seeing your work here, and you certainly put it to excellent use.
- It's a laserpecker pro 1. It's about $280 and can engrave about a 4" square area.
  
  I put together an indexer and a chuck along with a jig to hold everything. So the laser is simple, but I set it up to enable things like this.
  
  Really nice. Is it true that the main advantage of a the laser over a wood burner is getting that really fine detail? Did you do the line above and below with a wood burner or a laser as well?
  
  I am thoroughly impressed by your ingenuity! I'm assuming that its a fairly manual process with this setup, where you run several jobs all the way around the bowl while rotating the bowl in between jobs? Probably not as convenient as a set it and forget it machine but after a quick Google I see that the cost savings are SIGNIFICANT.
  
  Excellent work my friend, thanks for sharing a picture of your setup.
Perfect balance between precision crafting and some organic goofiness.

Amazing !

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