Welcome to EFM Bowl Turnings! Everette Middleton turns and sells handmade wooden bowls. Starting with raw chunks of timber he hand crafts the bowls by turning the wood on a lathe. He works the wood until he takes away everything that isn't a bowl. 
Often, the wooden bowls are embellished with semi-precious stone inlay (Malachite, Lapis, Turquoise...). Some of the wood bowls are natural edge with no inlay. While most of the bowls are intended for decoration, we do offer wooden salad bowls as well. The decorative bowls can be used as key/change bowls to keep things organized by your door. Also, the vessels and vases can be displayed with dried flowers or with a glass insert LIVE flowers.
Prices of the bowls range between: $25 for the smallest with no inlay to $400 for the largest with inlay.
New Bowls and Vessels For Sale!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 02:49PM Click on the photo to see the new wooden bowls and vessels! Most are still available for sale and as always I love creating custom pieces to your specifications! Please visit the "Contact Us" page to reach me if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Frank
Hands
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 02:59PM 
One of the things I love about turning bowls and tending our farm is working with my hands. However, this often leaves them rough and calloused. And on most occasions stained in the prints and under the nails. I personally don't see a problem here. But I do get odd looks from time to time. Whether it's from my mother-in-law taken aback by my nails as I take a bite of bread or an old friend sneering at them at a grade school reunion. I am so used to this condition these responses seem odd to me. On several occasions my daughter has told me I have "scratchy" hands and that I need to "fix" them. But alas, I am not the type of person to get a manicure or scrub them with some dried out sea creature. So I guess I will continue to live with this affliction. In doing so I would ask those repulsed by my grotesque hands to be more tolerant.
That being said, tongue planted firmly in cheek, I enjoy the rugged nature of my hands. They are a reminder of my projects. Be it a stain from the polyurethane I applied to a vessel that I have been laboring over for weeks. Or a splinter that has been plaguing me since the final nail hammered into my barn stalls. Oddly enough, while inspecting them, I feel closer to my ancestors. They take me to time before people were crammed into air-conditioned cubicles forced to pound away feverishly on keyboards. And with that last thought lingering I will wrap this up.
-Everette
Cherry with Turquoise
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:34AM 
This piece was made out of a log that fell into my friends front yard. Just goes to show you that an interesting finished product can come from anywhere!
