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Here is the progress after 8 hours.  At first the smell of burning bone is a little off putting but after a while becomes strangely pleasant. Two hour stints are about all I can stand though as it is hard on the eyes.

I’ve been wanting to create a pyrography artwork on a Buffalo skull for a while now.  I got this great skull from Dean at BUFFALOMOUNTS.COM in Cody Wyoming!  He was great to work with and the skull is really nice!  I’ll post a pic here in the blog every day or so as the work progresses.  Here is the starting point.

So happy and relieved to finish this one without having a catastrophic failure ... there were so many holes in the body of the vessel due to the shape of the tree trunk I started with.  I wanted to have all the holes in the piece but it made the hollowing difficult and somewhat stressful.  😀

I’ve hollowed almost to the finishing point and before I continue on with the last little bit I need to remove the piece and do some inlay work in order to strengthen the vessel.  If I don’t it’s likely to come apart on me.  Once I have gotten the inlay in some of the cracks it should strengthen the pot enough structurally to finish the hollowing to the desired wall thickness.

I have the basic outside shape and have the piece mounted with the steady rest and have just started hollowing.