Box Elder Bowl 2

This is another bowl from the box elder, also intended to be turned and let warp as it dried.  It worked better on this one than the last, but there's still some torn grain for the same reason as the last bowl.  Great color and curl to the wood though.  This and the last ended up being smaller than I intended as the anchorseal substitute I read about online didn't do much of anything and I had to cut away considerable splits in the log.

Having an idea, I made a discovery when making this bowl.  The ink from a Uniball Signo RT 207 micro point pen won't bleed under lacquer!  No more tracing over a pencil line 600 times to get it dark enough to see...