This wonderful salad bowl was made by my hubby Paul when he was in Shop Class in high school. It is beautifully made. He also made the salad serving set as well. Many years back though, before we had a kitchen with storage, we used to keep the bowl on top of the fridge with a lot of other stuff. Then one day it got jostled and fell off. It broke clean in two, much to our despair. It went into the basement for repair, and Paul got it glued back together. It needed refinishing though: filling of any small remaining cracks, a good sanding, re-staining parts, and plenty of polyurethane to fill gaps and give it a solid waterproof coat. But there were just so many other projects and so much to do, that it sat and sat and sat...
Then once we had made some good headway into the kitchen remodel, we stumbled upon it on a shelf in the basement. How many years had it been?! Paul got going on it again, working carefully and methodically to restore it. Coat after coat of poly, until it was just right.
Paul's Signature on the bottom of the bowl
from when he first made it- 4/20/72.
How lovely to serve salad in such a bowl!
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