After careful consideration—and a desire to test some carving discs for an angle grinder—I settled on an asymmetrical, shallow bowl. You would usually make a wooden bowl like this on a wood lathe.

How To Carve A Root Wood Bowl woodworking video educates you on the basics of root wood and bowl carving using no power tools, just hand tools. I hope you enjoy.

The wood frame is constructed to move freely front to back and left to right. To control the height of the cutting tool, in this case a Dremel, the frame pivots up and down and the X-axis rail.