Up or Down

When turning a bowl from a plainsawn plank, you have a choice, rings up or rings down. By that I mean, which face will be the rim and which face will be the foot. I am not an artist but I made a sketch below to illustrate.

In the last few days I’ve made two cherry bowls from the same plank. One is with rings up, the other is with rings down. The photo’s below show the end of the plank.

Rings up

Rings down

Remember when you look at the pics below that these two bowls were made from consecutive slices from the same plank. What a difference up or down makes!

Cherry with rings up

#2004Curly Wild Black Cherry Wooden Bowl

Cherry with rings down.

#2012 Wild Black Cherry Wooden Bowl

The bowls look nothing alike. Both are nice but in this case I vote rings up!