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  1. Lost in the Woods #3

    Lost in the Woods #3

    Open segmented vessel with floating bottom and closed segmented rim. Bloodwood, Maple, Purpleheart, Tarara (Red Canary), Walnut, Wenge and Yellowheart. 12"x12"x12". Rim and base have 24 segments with the body having 48 segments per row. *Wipe-on poly finish
  2. Angularity

    Angularity

    Small bowl with slanted segment orientation. 5"D, 3.375"H
  3. Pentastrophe

    Pentastrophe

    My entry for the Segmented Woodturners pen challenge. It was all going well until I used a 12-ton press to assemble the pen and this happened. Oh well. Some Jerry Bennett inspiration again...
  4. Segmented Teapot

    Segmented Teapot

    The woods used are Wenge, Holly, African Blackwood, Ambrosia Maple and black veneer. The finish is shellac and paste wax. The Teapot is 9” in height.
  5. Orb Ligneus

    Orb Ligneus

    Inspired by the first wooden satellite sent into space, LignoSat, I decided to make my own satellite. This is zebra wood in a sapele frame on a granite base. It is an interactive sculpture. This is a pair of segmented, ribbon spheres as described by David Springett in a much earlier issue of...
  6. Tunbridge Inspired

    Tunbridge Inspired

    Small maple bowl with maple, walnut and cherry feature ring. Granadillo rim. 6.5"D, 2.75"H. Inspired by a vintage Tunbridge Ware box.
  7. Shades of Fall

    Shades of Fall

    “Shades of Fall” is 12H x 7W. It is made from Pau Marfin with pyrography and Transparent Acrylics. The “wall side” is Chakte Viga.
  8. Overlaminated

    Overlaminated

    Small erratic bowl using cherry, maple and a saplele rim. 6.5" D, 4.25"H
  9. Last Call

    Last Call

    This is the last in a small series of weave segmentation using cherry, walnut, and yellowheart for the feature ring. Main species of cherry with pau ferro and maple rim. Quite a bit of planning goes into the creation of these vessels and when the geometry is off you can really tell. I think I...
  10. Rude Crosstalk

    Rude Crosstalk

    Segmented bowl based upon a Rude Osolnik form. Cherry, Walnut, Maple with Pau Rosa rim. 7.25"D, 5.25"H
  11. Lunar Turbulence (Top view)

    Lunar Turbulence (Top view)

    View from the top showing texturing details.
  12. Lunar Turbulence

    Lunar Turbulence

    This segmented project depicts a turbulent force engulfing a distant moon. I made the walnut ribbon from 6 bottomless bowls, which I deconstructed and then reassembled into the 8-lobe shape. I sized the ribbon to encompass a 6-inch segmented maple sphere. I power carved and painted the sphere to...
  13. Laminations Galore

    Laminations Galore

    The segmented woodturners chapter has a challenge underway to design a piece incorporating N-generation laminations. A zig-zag is called a 1st gen lamination. If you cut up a zig-zag and reglue it, you get a 2nd gen lamination. This piece is 8" tall and contains one zig-zag and two 2-gen...
  14. A Ribbon Runs Through It

    A Ribbon Runs Through It

    Cherry Segmented bowl with maple, basswood, walnut, and chatke-viga. A canary wood rim. 8" D, 5" H. I made this one a bit thicker in the walls to be used and abused.
  15. Cerejeira Ribbon

    Cerejeira Ribbon

    Cerejeira Bowl with Avodire, walnut, cherry, and leopardwood rim. 7-3/8" D 4-1/4" H. Big brother to Canary wood Ribbon.
  16. Open Palm

    Open Palm

    10 stave maple bowl with black palm accents. 8" diameter, 4" H
  17. 10 and 20

    10 and 20

    Small flame maple vanity box. Birdseye maple inlay on button lid. 10 staves capped with 20 segment rim. 3.25" D, 3" H
  18. Segmented Mesquite Vase

    Segmented Mesquite Vase

    Mesquite, Walnut, Maple, Chatke-Viga. 8.5 diameter, 7.5" tall
  19. Slightly segmented walnut bowl

    Slightly segmented walnut bowl

    Walnut bowl from a nice crotch blank a friend gifted me. A segmented yellowheart accent ring was added on the top. Rim is slightly undercut and walls are a bit thicker than usual since I wanted a bit of heft when you pick it up. WATCO Tung oil followed by Ack's abrasive and wax. 6-3/4" diameter...
  20. Segmented large vase.

    Segmented large vase.

    51705 pieces of oak, chestnut, afzelia, padauk, wenge and meranti.
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