Salad Mixing Bowls
The greatest demand I see is for large salad mixing bowls, 14" to 16" of 17" diameter. On average, the diameter of the log needs to be at least 2" larger than the largest bowl diameter to be turned. So these large salad mixing bowls require large tree stems, which are more difficult to obtain and transport.
As a result, it is difficult to keep large salad mixing bowls on hand.
The typical salad mixing bowl found in stores has an ever increasing diameter from the base to the rim, what one might call an "open" shape. This is the most economical salad mixing bowl shape to turn.
In this bowl, the diameter is continuously increasing from the base to the rim.
The subtle band on the outside of the rim adds visual interest and aids handling the bowl in use.
It is easy to imagine that salad ingredients being mixed can end up on the counter. An occasional salad mixing bowl is turned in this open shape, because that profile is what customers most often see for sale and in use.
A well known Autralian wood turner, Richard Raffan, presented in his bowl turning video a "containing" bowl, where the diameter decreases slightly approaching the rim.
At the rim a relatively narrow band often is turned. This band provides extra visual interest due, but also is very functional. The band makes the bowl much easier to handle without dropping when hands are wet.
Personal experience over more than two years with a 6" diameter "containing" cereal bowl has shown a narrower rim very effective at keeping corn flakes within the bowl.
(The bowl pictured above is unfinished and therefore not for sale. It was photographed because no large diameter logs have been offered recently.)
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