Richard Raffan gets four bowls from a short box elder log.

In this, the first in a trilogy, you see in real time how I cut two blanks from a short log, then rough-turn each bowl, saving the inside of each for another two bowls. You see the four finished bowls at the end of the video. You can see these bowls being completed in: https://youtu.be/LSZfSNHds64 and https://youtu.be/hxfvVILN0-k