This book is for the person who wants the per-

sonal joy and satisfaction of creating a useful item

and a thing of beauty with one s own hands and

heart. Remember, you leave a part of yourself in

everything you "touch" (create) with your hands.

This is a return to the "good old days" and the old

ways, using hand tools and a living piece of wood to

make a bowl.

From the beginning, hewn wooden bowls have

beenvery special to people. Anthropologists tell us

that the "cave man" used to spend his winter months

in his cave, with a stone adze and a chunk of wood,

hewing away to create a bowl -- a useful item to be

sure, but also a creation of beauty.

Wooden bowls and adzes accompanied people

as they crossed the land bridge from Asia to North

America. They were among the few items treasured

enough to be carried along this journey of many

lifetimes.

Until the advent of mechanization, a man would

still spend his winter months in his home, using his

metal adze to hew wooden bowls and treenware

("from a tree"). Each bowl so created has a part of its

creator in it, distinguishing it from the latter-day,

machine-made, production-line bowls.