Fragmented Recovery

I made this with the idea of a bowl beginning to explode. This piece was a ton of work—not entirely sure the juice was worth the squeeze, but I did learn a lot during the process and walked away with some ideas for future pieces. Onward! Here are a couple of additional views:

It's going to take a lot of epoxy to fill those holes!

That is super-cali-fragment-istic-exploding-a-bowl-a-sis (assuming you're old enough to remember Mary Poppins).

I'm glad you found all of the pieces.

Yes, the juice was worth the squeeze.

Oh my goodness! This looks very time consuming. Of course it is excellent...

Excellent work. Well worth the time and effort.

Outstanding....As Foghorn Leghorn would say - I hope you kept them numbered.That would be a tough puzzle to piece back together if spilled.

Wow! Specular!

Thanks a lot everyone! Bill and Randy, oh man I was meticulous with keeping everything organized. Still had a couple of close calls though. Dropped a piece in the garage, and another one ripped out of my hand when I was carving the edge. Fortunately they weren’t lost for long. I might have said a few choice words though…

I did build a form to keep everything in order though. I wrapped another bowl I had made in aluminum foil and a couple of layers of duct tape, with the outer layer “sticky side out”. This let me stick all of the pieces somewhere while I worked. Was still a bit stressful, but it worked.

Bill Boehme said:

That is super-cali-fragment-istic-exploding-a-bowl-a-sis (assuming you're old enough to remember Mary Poppins)

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That cracked me up (even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious). Oh yeah, very familiar with Mary Poppins. A childhood staple.