Definitely not a soup bowl. Maybe a chip or cookie bowl? Beautiful wood, even if hard as nails. Thank you Dan! Congrats Phil on passing 50 thousand subscribers!!!! Whoo-hoo!

Nice one Phil .. cool piece as usual 👍

I really love the way you look at pcs as art instead of useful items. It gives them a personality....and ALL your pcs have a personality

Wow! Perhaps the loveliest wood and work I’ve seen yet. The fact that I saw JFK in the grain has nothing to do with that. The beauty is intrinsic.

Hello Phil. Hearing the clickity clack of your 5/8” swept back bowl gouge cutting the corners off of this awesome piece of wood is music too my ears. The bowl is gorgeous, too. Sensational video as well. Take care. 😊

297th!! Well, maybe not that many. Hey, anyone can be 1st, you know! LOL! That is a beautiful piece, Phil. You never cease to amaze, buddy. With all the sharpening you were doing that must be incredibly hard wood. You certainly showed who the boss is, my friend. It didn't really have a chance once you got it into your shop. Great work! Thanks for sharing! Happy turning, .....Gord

Mother Nature gives us the beauty. You certainly know how to show it to us.

Hi Phil just popped in to say how much I truly enjoy watching and listening to you. I think that I if I were not 69 years old that I would take up wood turning. Many thanks from Portsmouth on the south coast of England.

Your philosophical ethos of nature and how you relate to it with your wood turning is beautiful, Phil. This is yet another stunning art-piece you've so skilfully mastered out of an odd piece of wood, everything about this bowl is gorgeous. Take care of yourself and try not to over do it! Be safe, thank you for just being you, Phil! 💛🫂😊

Your vision is incredible. Olive 🫒 wood. What an interesting grain. As always expertly turned Phil 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

the Oberti family grew olives in the central valley of California for many years... in the 40's thru 70's the Oberti Olive company provided 75% of the olives and olive oil consumed in the U.S.A. and shipped there produces around the world.... during the 70's and 80's I saw those trees dozed down and burned... now as a turner the memory makes me want to cry... those old trees were quite beautiful...

I love the way you explane all that goes on as your turning.

That’s absolutely beautiful, Phil. You never disappoint and this one is definitely outstanding. 👍🏻

That is simply stunning, I would be so proud to own such a beauty.

!!!!!BULS EYE!!!!!!! Again. you nailed it I'm so embarrassed my pieces don't look as good as your. I Wii keep on trying be as close as I can to your results. I hope you are doing well and keep on showing us beautifull pieces. KEEP ON TURNING.

Phil is the Michelangelo of wood turning 😁 it was always there. He just removed the rough edges.

That is absolutely gorgeous! You never disappoint!

That turned out absolutely beautiful 😍

Good evening, Phil. Wowzer! I like everything about this bowl. Wood, check. Design, check. Sanding, check. Finish, check. Soft touch, check. Looks, check. Phil did an excellent job!? Keep your tools sharp. See ya next time my friend.

Yes Yes Yes if anyone could mount it and turn it then make it beautiful had to be you! Nice to see you back. Be well my friend. Dennis

Beautiful Phil!! It always makes me smile watching your videos, thanks for being real!!

Oh my gosh Phil. This olive wood bowl is stunning. Sooo beautiful. You did an incredibly awesome job. Well done Sir. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. 💕🤗💕

I look forward to every one of Phil’s videos.

I love that you follow your heart and let the wood tell you what it wants to be. ♥️👍🏻🇺🇸

Holy cow, Phil…that is gorgeous! So much interesting to look at, and I wish we could all feel it. I especially like the circular grain where the branches were. Glad you’re feeling up to working in the shop. :) Take care, Marcia

I just love how you always make sure that mother nature is your most important thing that you capture. I'm always looking forward to your next piece of work. I myself will always take another wood turners artwork for reference to how I would challenge myself for my next project to make sure that something is left of nature. Sometimes it doesn't happen and you end up with a salad bowl. Then again some of those kind people want a fancy salad bowl. Either way happy turning my friend and it's awesome to see you in your element again. 😍 now it's time for me to get back to work.

A wonderful piece of wood expertly turned, a joy to watch on this saddest of days.

Just beautiful like always Phil. I hope you are feeling better, and not just a good actor. Hope to see you again next Thursday. Thanks for another good evening.

Hi Phil nice to see you again, this olive wood looks really nice it's got some great grain and the nooks and grannies in it are awesome. The inside sure is beautiful, I could tell its a hard piece to turn I bet you had to sharpen your tools a fair few times. The colour of the wood is really nice. The trio edge crouch bowl is fabulous and the finish is great you have turned another masterpiece. I've really enjoyed this video and I've enjoyed you telling us what you are doing. Nature is great thank you Phil please take care from Amanda in Scotland xxxx

I mustsay Phil, You haven't missed a beat my friend! Glad you are feeling well enough to get back in the shop with such a tough piece! Came out beautifully I might add! Who knew we could go from a woodturning channel to a horror channel in a split second lol. That was funny.

Love your relationship and appreciation of the wood you work on and your desire to not fix the beautiful natural quirks of the piece.

Great to see you back turning again Phil. God Bless and love you my brother.

Had to work hard to get that piece of olive wood looking nice, Phil. When I start roughing a piece like that, I use a well-swept back 5/8 bowl gouge and lower the handle so you get an easier slicing cut. I see you're using HSS bowl gouges. You'd be surprised at how much better an M2 or better yet an M42 or CP10V gouge stays sharp longer on hardwood. I love breaking the turning rules of leaving piths in. Those branches make the piece. Great job! Thanks for sharing.

Phil, When the video started, I was thinking “No way he is going to get that to work”. Happily you made it work extremely well! Happy you are back! Best Wishes, Kevin. PS seen grands lately? We are sitting our 5 month old granddaughter. It’s fun to see them change when they are that small!

🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 69 yr old grandma in Texas, USA. 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍 🧚‍♂ 🐈 🧚 🍀 💐

I am finally one of the cool kids. Great work, Phil

This bowl would make a perfect yarn bowl. It's worth a lot more that using for holding yarn while your knitting or crocheting, its just the type of tool most of us use to hold our yarn while we are creating something also. It's beautiful love all the wood grain

Gawd, I love olive wood. Made my daughter's ring bowl out of it. Thanks, Phil!

Glad you don’t use epoxy. Many turners use epoxy to hide natural features of their wood pieces, but I really like and appreciate the beauty you get out of your pieces au natural. Thanks for staying true to your beliefs. If I want to see epoxy there are many places to see it, but very few that bring out the natural beauty of the wood with all of its “features”.

I know your videos aren't exactly an instructional how to, but I've learned so much from watching. We have a similar way of looking of looking at peices

Oh my goodness, this one is gorgeous! It's so gorgeous that I'd put a photo of it on my wall! Wow!

One does not think of trees in Las Vegas. The variations of color in this Olive wood are a favorite. Thank you!

the grain is the star for sure, and that shape that you achieved if fabulous! Really enjoyed seeing you at work. Thank you Mr Phil for sharing that beautiful piece, and I totally agree why put anything on that side? The woodgrain is more than enough all on it's own. Ax in the Head, you crack me up. and I love the thoughts of days that as kids we would have placed a marble or toy there in the knoock,, POL spot on Mr Phil!

Olive wood certainly IS beautiful wood. There's an olive wood store in Jerusalem, Israel, where people often go to buy little gifts; nice little place. As always, phenomenal work! Keep it up.

Howdy Phil, great sharpening jig! Olive wood is so rich and beautiful. Can't wait to see this creation completed. 👍🏻♥️🇺🇸

olive wood is one of the most beautiful woods

Is it just me or is the sounds of turning a soothing white noise? Unexpected side benefit of lathe work.

My second viewing of this: simply gorgeous! Olive will grow well in central and southern California, having a Mediterrainean type climate.

Its gorgeous Phil , You papa , Andy,RC , have taught me so much 😊😊

Phil it’s really good to see you turning. Hope you feel well.

Phil I had to watch your video again so I knew how to turn the piece I have. I was not real sure on how to mount my piece. After you got started I had to watch the entire video for more inspiration. I am ready to go turn my piece. Thanks for your help and guidance.

Another amazing natural bowl . So glad that you can show us how to turn these pieces.

Hola Phil, Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful 🤩. Keep the aspidistra flying! Be well. Paul

Awesome. Hope your doing and feeling well. Glad to see your in the shop. For me it's the best therapy. I have been leaving a lot more of the natural edges lately. I guess you have inspired me. Thanks for posting the video I really injoy them.

Wow! That is another amazing piece! Someone who crochets can use that with their yarn with that deep valley on it. Man, I wish I could do turning! That is stunning! Darn.

Thanks Phil! Another beauty in the books!😃👍🏻👍🏻

Howdy Phil Finally I got 25:17 minutes free to watch your video ... I am retired and I am busier than when I was working ! That wood is so pretty ..... when you put the sealer on that outside branch just came alive ! Like a Polaroid developing ! I hope my brand new grandson will like wood work, he will have a lot of tools . That inside looks like you put some chocolate syrup and started to stir it in milk !

Beautiful! Agreed, left as nature intended is best… 😉🤗👍🏻

When I saw the piece of wood at the beginning, could not figure out how beautiful it will turn out, great work as always Sr. GM, GA, GE. Glad to see you.

You are the master of the natural bowl, Phil. Thanks for sharing.

Well you've done it again...another gorgeous bowl!!! The inclusion looks like a cave entrance to me with the bark. 😉

❤❤❤, Phil! I absolutely LOVE watching your videos, I can't say that enough! I have a small crotchless h piece of Applewood that I'm going to do like you did for this piece of olive. Thank you so very.much for the videos, and the talking (teaching) that you do. I am eternally grateful to you. So glad that you are feeling better!! Take care of yourself!

Hi 👋 Phil from Phil, You certainly do get given some lovely pieces of wood, A lovely piece of work / Art . Phil from the moulin France.

That one grain pattern on the outside is kind of oval made me think of that ultrasound of the baby inside the mom womb. On the inside, where a split is hold it upwards I thought I caught a glimpse of what could be the form of an angel in the grain. I didn’t get a clear look like I wanted to but the bowl turned out gorgeous. I know it’s gonna take a lot of practice but I truly hope one day. I am at least half as good as you are. Thank you so much for continuing to share, Mr. Phil

Wow so so so beautiful. Olive wood is one of my very favorites. BTW there are olive orchards all over California. Even wild olive and the bushy Russian olive. The climate is very similar to Spain and Italy so you can bet we got that going on. I've got some Greek ancestry so I've always been a little partial to olives. I'm growing my own little baby tree now actually. Thank you so much for this video. This bowl is so beautiful. It should be an art piece but if you have a home full of art pieces It could also make a yarn bowl. No matter what it's gorgeous. Thank you so much for the videos and for keeping the wood and the tree an essential part of your turnings. I especially liked the story about hiding marbles and proof of life. Phil is the one that recommended you to me and I love his resin work but the life of the tree is the root of my obsession with wood turning. Don't ever stop keeping the bark. It will be a sad day if we lose the live edge. And thank you for recommending Kimsey I love his fearless approach to any shape he's determined to keep the natural form alive.

Hi again Phil ,we have lots of Olives growing in our district, I have turned quite a lot of it over the past 8 or more years, 1 large root from a tree more than 100 years old, beautiful wood and lovely to work, maybe it's the climate, for all our Olive Wood is dense but mid range of hardness, tending to soft, thanks again George Lomas NZ

Hi Phil so good to hear your voice I hope this finds you well. That olive wood is so beautiful. A bit heavy on your tools but well worth the sharpening. I agree from the front it does look like a giant ants head that’s been hit with a big axe lol 🤣🤣🤣 take care and see you next time my friend 👍👍👍😊😊😊♥️

The chips at the start looked more like sparks. Gorgeous wood and a very cool bowl.

Good Morning , I turned my computer on and what did i see? None other than Phil turning another piece of his special flavor of art. Yep it's going to be a good day. Keep it up friend!

GORGEOUS!!! FYI - We have lots of Olive trees in California. I don’t know for a fact, but I’d be willing to bet that as the Catholic Missions were built they planted Olive trees as well.

Glad to see you running at full steam. 👍👍👏👏👌👌

I like the way you start every turning with your famous saying.. MASK AND FACE SHIELD ON!!! always safety first with you.. LOL..

GREAT TURN! It really is all about the grain, isn't it! Thanks for sharing your work!

Hello Phil you can almost never go wrong by turning olive wood the beauty of the nature its there and ready to be revealed .Great work Yiannis (Athens Greece)

Oooooh! Only halfway through the video and it is sooo pretty.

What an absolutely gorgeous "proof of life" bowl ... i'm going to adopt that phrase ... I hope you don't mind. 🤩 you never fail to impress us.

Hi Phil, another good transformation of Philwood into a beautiful art bowl. Thanks for the videos. Cheers, Tom

This Saturday a crew is coming to cut a widow maker limb off of a Wild Cherry tree, cut down one Live Oak that died of old age and four widow maker limbs from two giant Water Oaks. Living in hurricane prone Florida I have to keep up with the tree maintenance. Every three years the woods get a thorough checkout. Pay the price now to save paying a heck of a price for tree damage repairs after a bad storm. A lot of folks get complacent with tree maintenance and wind up with unhealthy trees. I'll be shipping all the downed wood up to your place so you will be able to do wood turning for another 50 years or more. It should be about three to four tractor trailer flatbed loads. Your Olive wood bowl turned out beautiful.

As always, thanks for teaching the art of the possible when it comes to bowl turning.

Hi Phil. Found you quite by accident but love to watch your work. You're our favorite turrner. Good luck and smooth sailing. Kepp up the good work and "Don't let the old man in".

That is one gorgeous wild grained bowl. What a joy to see it develope

Very well done, It looks like a yarn bowl! So not just an art piece. 😉

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of olive wood turn out bad! Beautiful wood and that piece is exceptional!!!

Phil this is gorgeous! The grain. just Jumps out and the colours are WOW.Thanks Phil God Bless you sir.

I've been without internet for about 3 weeks so went looking for your channel as soon as we got home. What a great video and beautiful piece to come home to. Thanks, Phil!

I think this has become my favorite of your creations. The wood grain is amazing...doesn't need anything else but it would hold my carved heart chain and cross I collected on a trip to Israel. I wish you sold your stuff!

As always, Phil you continue to amaze me and challenge me!!

💜Thanks Phil, I didn't notice the smiley face before..........hmmmm maybe I need new glasses. 😊

As always, Phil, you make this look easy. An attractive piece. Thanks for sharing. Pray you are feeling well.

Atrue inspiration praying for your full recovery

A super dooper piece. LOVE LOVE the grain. I was out of town Thursday for a funeral so I'm just now getting to see the video.

Thanks, Phil. I needed to relax and enjoy. Love your humor. It is a striking bowl.

Gorgeous centerpiece for any table. I can imagine a beautiful autumn colors arrangement as a spectacular eye-catching centerpiece or on a mantle. ♥️👍🏻🇺🇸

What a gorgeous piece of nature. I agree this is much better than if it would be filled with epoxy. In my view, as long as it does not disintegrate it is better to trust mother nature, but when it gets risky, epoxy can do a good job.

A natural yarn bowl. Very beautiful.

I like Andy's work too.

Nice to hear your voice again. Beautiful turning as usual.

that peace is gorges.... love ya Phil...

Looks like a rose on the side. Beautiful piece!

A beauty Phil. Thank God you decided against using epoxy. Peanuts, unshelled, bowl.