Popular bowl blanks about the center of the tree so that the grain is balanced.
The height should be a little over the diameter to allow a hemisphere shaped bowl.
12” diameter 5-6.5 height is a nice blank
There are lots of ways to cut blanks. The advantage of harvesting wood is you can cut for grain balance.
Grain balance around the center of the log will have symmetric grain that looks best most of the time and a benefit of the bowl warping symmetrically when it dries.
cut platter blanks from the center of large trees. Face cuts parallel to the pith.
2 Quarter sawn blanks on each side of the pith
Rift sawn platter blank centered on the pith face cuts parallel to the pith
bowl blanks cut near the face of the log face cuts parallel to the bark edge. The bowl bottom will be near the bark so you can have bark curvature. hope this diagram hells instead of confusing.
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