Once again limited shop time tonight. 12 hour days are work aren't much fun.
This is an African Sumac roughout from a couple of years ago. I decided to work on finishing it. Tonight was the first step, truing up the tenon and the outside.
One of the things that I love about African Sumac is that it changes color with exposure to UV light. This piece never saw direct sunlight, just incident daylight and artificial lights in my shop so the color change isn't as dramatic as a couple of days in the sun would be but the change is still there. This photo shows the UV exposed surface on the left and the fresh cut surface on the right.
10-15 minutes later the outside is trued and ready to sand.
A slightly closer view. This piece has a bit of very fine curl running through it. This will show much better once the piece is finished.
Here's a piece of African Sumac from the same location that I finished a couple of years ago. The curl on this piece is much more dramatic than the bowl I'm currently working on. The color in this photo is a little light. It's a bit darker than this in real life.
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