“There’s a certain misconception that you have to be really strong and muscular,” says Ashley Harwood, a woodturner creating stunning handmade wooden bowls out of her shop in South Carolina. “Woodturning is more about finesse than anything, and really having the feeling of the cut more than strength.”

Woodturning, put simply, is a process of making wood round, and it’s a tradition that goes back to ancient times. For her bowls, Harwood works with locally salvaged wood, embarking on a