Well I was asked to make a handle for a froe and I didn't have any suitable wood so quick call and I was in a land rover off to Brentwood, a shooting estate of a friend who always likes to go out to the woods for a walk. It's an overgrown coppice, huge limbs ten to 15 per stool, perhaps 40 foot tall and all swaying wildly in the wind. We made our selection of one trunk only, neither of us likes to fell trees unnecessarily. I counted the rings when we felled this limb and it was last coppiced in 1948! So just a wee bit overgrown! I made the handle but had a ton of wood left and as it was a very pinky colour for ash and had the addition of the wonderful dark olives, which I don't seem to come across often, I knew I had to make some bowls...