Hope Bowl
A friend of mine was getting remarried. It was a wonderful time for the broken pieces to be mended, so I offered up one of my crackpots as a wedding gift. It’s red oak from my family farm down in Mississippi. A big chunk of limb was broken off in a sudden storm (Did someone say metaphor?)
So my brother and I salvaged a few pieces and this one made it into a nice pot that developed almost two identical cracks on opposite sides. So I stitched one in waxed thread and the other I fashioned staples from cyclone fencing and inserted them after heating them with a propane torch.
After hammering on the staples a little I covered the back of their holes with some fine chckory coffee grounds and some glue to give them a little more character.
Since this crackpot is basically being mended by string and wire, I thought that was a nice symbol for his marriage. 
