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Blackwood spirals 8" dia AO and buffed. This is piece came from a tree downed in a major rain storm it literally washed away its roots. A very gnarly piece of wood with the grain going every whichaway. No tear out more like divot out.

A bowl made form Red Cedar from new Mexico

We finally got our schedules together. My wife and I got him a "Christmas gift" for a penturning class at our local Woodcraft store. Only took 10 months to get together. He turned one blank yesterday and found it had worm holes. When he got down so far, we could see the tube. The wood let...

So I have been doing the LDD bowl drying method for a few weeks now with pretty great success until recently... I decided to get the big bottles of Great Value Brand Dish-washing Liquid so I could feel up a large container and soak more bowls at once. WELL the outcome was I lost all 8 Maple...

I've been trying to use free wood for my projects so that I can learn how to prepare blanks, dry the roughed bowls properly etc. I had a bunch of ornamental pear logs (it's quite popular in Southern Calif for lining the streets) The bowl pictured was turned from an approximately 3" thick slab...

One of my beginner bowls turned in early 2007

A yard tree taken down gave me lots of wood to air dry, and this is the first bowl made from our home Catalpa. Seven one-half inches in diameter, and about four and one-half inches deep.

Potpourri bowl in Chilean Tineo, 4-1/2" in diameter.

I have been at turning for many years, just getting used to some newer bowl mounting methods. How do you all eliminate those annoying chuck marks on either ti interior expanding dovetail or the calmping onto a dovetail tenon. See the dimples on this mini bowl I turned today? I use the...

Mesquite bowl with lacquer finish. Donated to local Tarrant Area Food Bank for upcoming Empty Bowls Project.

Walnut oiled finish. I think that the wood might be hickory. I donated it to local Tarrant Area Food Bank for their Empty Bowls event in 2012.

Winged natural-edged bowl turned from green mesquite and finished with lacquer. Size is approximately 15 inches from tip to tip. Donated to local Tarrant Area Food Bank for upcoming Empty Bowls Project.

Over the years I have had a simple Rockwell Lathe, an old Walker Turner ($100) a General, and now a VicMarc VL200 VS Long Bed. This in addition to my Huge Production CNC Lathe. My question to you all is: Q: "IF you were buying a new Lathe for Spindle work and some average Bowl work, what...

From "Symbols of Person, Series 1", this is "Passion." 5 1/2 in. diameter x 1 in. depth, ogee bowl, made from maple burl. Pyrographized, and gilded with 24k gold. Though better seen in person then in the photo, the pyro- work is done in what I call "directional...

My daughter wants me to make a bowl for her. SWMBO and daughter were shopping last week. The Mrs. stopped in Woodcraft to get a moisture meter that was on sale. She saw a turned cowboy hat. Asked if I could make one. If things keep piling up, I'll be 145 before I die!

Turned from green birds eye mesquite without drying (one of the many reasons that I love mesquite). The light colored marks are the tiny birds eye knots. Finished with spray lacquer. Posted for photographic critique.

The Peyoke Medicine Bowl is a tribal mortar and pestle. A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind and mix, in this case, medicinal herbs and plants. The mortar, which is almost 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, is the bowl and the pestle, which is just over 5 inches long and 1 1/2...

Bloodwood Finial, Osage Bowl and Lid, Mahogany Base

5" diameter and 1 3/4" high. Sides 1/8". Any and all comments welcomed.