Mike's Bowls

I was asked to turn a 30-year-old piece of Lignum Vitae, the hardest wood in the world! I don't think I would have agreed to it if I knew what I was getting myself into. The very hard and oily wood only produces smelly, sticky dust as you turn it and it requires you sharpen your tools every five minutes. After five hours of turning and two showers later the bowl blank was ready to have a plug epoxied into the cracked center. Now that the epoxy is cured I will proceed to shape and thin the bowl more.