How to Make Coconut Shell Bowl

One of the necessary kitchen utensils is a bowl, a bowl can be made from ceramic, stainless, or glass.

Along with the development of an increasingly sophisticated era, many people also choose to return to nature and use a bowl of natural materials, including using a bowl of wood, or from coconut shells.

Coconut shell bowl has long been used as cooking utensils and cutlery, actually not only a bowl, coconut shell has many alternatives made as complementary items either in the kitchen or or as decoration items in your home.

Coconut shell has a uniqueness including its very hard surface, and its relatively round shape, makes it easy to be made into a bowl, the process of making a bowl from a coconut shell can be done by taking coconut shells that have already taken its flesh, this is a way to increase the added value coconut shells usually only become trash and only burned it.

To make household appliances such as a bowl that uses coconut shells, make sure that you choose an old coconut with the characteristics of a dark brown coconut shell, this will increase the service life which will last a long time.

Coconut shell can be used normally as a household appliance if it does not use chemicals such as varnishes and paints, in addition to being strong and durable, the aromas that emerge from coconut shells have their own characteristics.

A coconut shell bowl usually consists of 2 main parts, namely the bowl and the foot bowl.

How to Make a Coconut Shell Bowl

Tools and materials
2 parts of coconut shell, make sure from an old coconut shell,
1 saw, can use a handsaw, electric saw will be better.
1 coarse and fine sandpaper, to flatten the inner and outer surfaces of a coconut shell.
1 wood glue, or quick dry adhesive
coconut shell powder the results of sanding to cover the glued surface, so that it is smooth.

How to make
1. Prepare 2 parts of coconut shell for the top and bottom, the top as a bowl and the bottom as a foot bowl, adjust the circle that can be made according to taste, then cut evenly then sandpaper using coarse sandpaper when starting, and use fine sandpaper to get the surface which is sleek and shiny and smooth.
2. Glue the bowl with the foot of the bowl by using wood glue or glue that dries quickly, add the resulting powder to close the gap in the part of the glue so that the meeting and glue become strong.
3. Wait until the wood glue dries earlier, so that the bowl will look perfect, if you want to use it as tableware, don't add varnish or paint on the surface of the bowl, if you want to make it into decoration then you can decorate it as you like.
4. Done.

The coconut shell bowl has quite a lot of benefits if you don't use it as a cutlery, this coconut shell bowl can also be used to put small items in your home, such as rings, watches, or pretty brooches that you have.

Thus hopefully useful