For Tilmann Bohne, pine wood is the most beautiful to work with. The soft coniferous wood is an ideal material for furniture making. On the lathe, the Stuttgart native wants to turn it into a bread pot complete with lid. Bread keeps fresh longer in it because air and moisture circulate harmoniously with each other.
The bread box, as the pot for baked goods is also called, is to have a simple shape that tapers towards the top. Before the 48-year-old gets down to designing and turning, he first saws and glues the blank. He carefully selects the planks for it. He pays attention to the branching and annual rings in the wood.
The trained stonemason and studied architect begins with the circular segments for the pot. He needs three of them. These three glued on top of each other make the hollow body with a height of about 23 centimeters. For the lid, he takes the plank with the heartwood. After the preliminary work, he then switches to the lathe and tools such as the so-called roughing tube or shaping tube. The conclusion of his work on the bread pot from the Swiss stone pine is then water, sponge and sandpaper.