• It's time to cast your vote in the October 2025 Turning Challenge. (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Curt Fuller for "Bell Ornaments" being selected as Turning of the Week for October 27, 2025 (click here for details)
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Is this turned?

Hard to tell. Could be all carving.

Could be turned on 2 axis one for the rimmed hole, the other for the form and hollowing.

My guess is it was turned on the lathe much like a NE bowl and the rimmed opening carved- May have been a knot or existing crack.
 
Back
Top