Arnhold turns scrap wood into attractive bowl
Staff writer
Talk about your recycling.
Marion High School junior Chelsea Arnhold made a beautiful, dark reddish-brown bowl from pallet waste wood, and entered it in the Marion County Fair and the Kansas State Fair this summer.
It was a 4-H project. She is a member of the Happy Hustlers 4-H Club.
The bowl won reserve champion honors in its division at the county level, and won an honor at "state," too, although Arnhold did not remember exactly what the level of the honor was.
She said her father, MHS principal Ken Arnhold, retrieved the wood from a Dumpster. A fair judge thought the wood was rosewood, but Ken Arnhold doesn't think so.
It's a very nice piece of "shop/art," and Chelsea plans to do more woodworking.
The bowl is about 13 1/2 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep. Lathe work, sanding, and finishing, made the total bowl-making project require about four to five hours of work, Chelsea said.
Total cost? Less than $5, plus, of course, the time.
According to state 4-H officials, the bowl would be "right at home in an art gallery."
National 4-H Week was last week, Oct. 5-11.
