Sliced Hollow Form

Nice piece Dave! And the wood is lovely-- the grain looks like a crashing wave and swirling water. I scavenge most of my wood and don't often know the species. And when I do know the species and label the raw wood and by the time it is finished the "chain of custody" is lost. It bothers me only in the fact that it seems to me that every woodturner on the planet does a better job than I in identification and record keeping
Looking forward to catching one of your demos in Portland!!

Will Armstrong said:

And when I do know the species and label the raw wood and by the time it is finished the "chain of custody" is lost.

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Yeah. I know where this log came from (our club's wood lot) but when I grabbed it, I think it was stacked with some maple. So I mentally cataloged it as "maple". I actually labeled one other piece as maple (pyro'ed on with my sig) - then looked at it and said "huh? what?". So I had to sand off my whole sig and redo it. And so by now I have, as you say, lost the chain of custody.
Fortunately, this piece of wood has enough going for it that the species isn't important.

I think you are right Dave, sure looks like Honey Locust !!

Did this warp after splitting Dave? Your cuts are typically identical. I’m asking for a friend, lol!!

Russ Braun said:

Did this warp after splitting Dave? Your cuts are typically identical. I’m asking for a friend, lol!!

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Nope. I intentionally shifted the cuts to make the variable opening

Dave Landers said:

Nope. I intentionally shifted the cuts to make the variable opening

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It’s a different effect for sure!