OK, what next?
Part of the fun of bowling (making a bowl on the lathe) is picking out what to do next. At any given time I have 100-200 bowls in progress. I keep them in stacks on racks. Sometimes a customer has asked for something specific and I sort through the unfinished bowls looking for just the right one to fill this order. Sometimes I am trying to balance inventory (I need more walnut bowls on the website) but the best fun is just picking one because you want to see what it looks like finished.
Here’s one I just had to see finished: