Your Ideal Fruit Bowl?

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  1. Jungle Jane

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    So I've been asked to carve/turn some wooden fruit for someones fruit bowl and have so far made an apple and about to start a pear today.

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    Apples, pears and bananas are quite obvious but what other fruit would everyone else put in their ideal fruit bowl?

    As you can tell I don't have a fruit bowl, I keep all mine in the fridge. :oops:
     
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      I was going to say grapes but then realised that would be immensely difficult to carve.
       
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        Impressive apple JJ :blue thumb: We sometimes have a Pineapple in the fruit bowl - not to sure how easy that would be to turn-carve.
        ( I was going to say grapes as well ! )
         
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          I could do grapes, just lots of little balls really. Joining them together would be interesting though.
           
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          Good morning Jane,
          I had a pash for wooden fruits and a bowl in the early 1980's . The bowl is a carved root of Tasmanian Myrtle and the fruits are of various woods. Sorry, not a true colours of the fruits - they are rich and golden - poor lighting this morning. Hope there's a bit of inspiration there,
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            back to work for fantastic Jane! In fruit bowls you would see also oranges, plums. apricots...
             
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              I currently have kiwis in my fruit bowl

              also sharon fruit is a fav

              loving the apple its brilliant
               
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                :wow: JJ...:love30:...:dbgrtmb:
                 
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                  Fantastic stuff. I love the bowl too. I see some banksia nut in your fruit. I have some of that and want to stay away from that at all costs. Sticking it on the lathe you get thousands of seeds shooting out at 1750 rpm :hate-shocked:

                  Done a pear yesterday and today hopefully will have a stab at a banana. The lady who commisioned me has asked me to do 5 pieces so I need to figure out what the next two will be. I like the idea of making some cherries but no one really puts cherries in their bowls do they?

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                    My fruit bowl would consist of more exotic fruits like mangoes, passion fruit, etc plus cherries, strawberries, apricots and definitely some peaches. How about a peach?
                     
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                      I put cherries in the fruit bowl; they just don't stay there very long.
                       
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                        Have you tried getting inspiration from a Google image search? I saw this fruit composition and thought it looked very tasty ... not sure how do-able it would be in terms of carving though ... [​IMG]
                         
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                        I imagine blackberries would be quite time consuming to do, strawberries would be quite interesting though. I did try google but google is a bit faceless and I wanted to get real peoples opinions on what they would like to see. My job can be challenging at times as I have to think on behalf of the customer and what they would expect to see and other people would recognise.
                         
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                          I do when they're in season.
                          I also have Physalis in there. I often have a mango or two in there under the bananas to ripen.
                           
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                            Done the banana yesterday and am just finishing the cherries off tomorrow.
                             
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