{"id":406,"date":"2015-02-17T23:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:28:38","slug":"cottonwood-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Cottonwood Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cottonwood-bowl-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-407 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cottonwood-bowl-003-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"474\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cottonwood-bowl-003-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cottonwood-bowl-003-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cottonwood is a very soft wood and for that reason it is not traditionally thought of as material for turning bowls.\u00a0 However, this morning I drove past a couple of guys who had just cut down a dead cottonwood tree in a front yard and I asked for and was given one of the rounds to cut up and try to turn.\u00a0 Although dead, the tree had been standing out in the weather and was relatively wet, making it difficult to cut cleanly with turning tools.\u00a0 Sanding was slow as well.\u00a0 But a pleasing shape can still be realized with a little patience.\u00a0 This bowl is 5&#8243; deep and a little over 6&#8243; across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cottonwood is a very soft wood and for that reason it is not traditionally thought of as material for turning bowls.\u00a0 However, this morning I drove past a couple of guys who had just cut down a dead cottonwood tree in a front yard and I asked for and was given one of the rounds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cottonwood Bowl<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowls-2","tag-cottonwood","tag-turning-green-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}