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10" x 4.5" finished with three coats of tung oil then hand polished. I kept coming back and back to this piece of black walnut- it was too big for my lathe. I didn't have a band saw or a chain saw and so I would chip away at it by hand until I thought it was able to fit on the lathe...

10" x 4.5" finished with three coats of tung oil then hand polished. I kept coming back and back to this piece of black walnut- it was too big for my lathe. I didn't have a band saw or a chain saw and so I would chip away at it by hand until I thought it was able to fit on the lathe...

This piece is 19" at it's widest point. The bowl is 10" across and about 2" deep. The wood is Big Leaf maple Burl. Finished with Tung Oil and Beale Buffed. Lots of fun with this one. To see and hear it spinning got to http://www.aturningdesire.com

Probably sycamore. Warped like crazy, but I like it that way on this bowl. That thing that looks like a tenon on the bottom is actually ... a tenon, but if I remove the tenon, I will have a funnel.

Banksia bowl and leaves Wood: Taupo grown Banksia Diam: 125mm (5") Height: 60mm (2-3/8") This piece of banksias has been sitting under a caravan in the back yard for about ten years. We sold the caravan so I had to move the wood I had piled up underneath, as you do. The...

Redwood burl, maple 20"x16.5"x6.25"

This bowl is wide and shallow. It is nine to ten inches in diameter. It is two to three inches deep. It has thin sides. It is made of African Mahogany. The wood grain is striated. The sequence of the sections or staves as they are called creates a spiraling pattern. It is finished with mineral oil.

This bowl is wide and shallow. It is nine to ten inches in diameter. It is two to three inches deep. It has thin sides. It is made of African Mahogany. The wood grain is striated. The sequence of the sections or staves as they are called creates a spiraling pattern. It is finished with mineral oil.

This bowl is wide and shallow. It is nine to ten inches in diameter. It is two to three inches deep. It has thin sides. It is made of African Mahogany. The wood grain is striated. The sequence of the sections or staves as they are called creates a spiraling pattern. It is finished with mineral oil.

Natural edge walnut calabash on a walnut stand. In Transition measures 10" wide on the long axis, 8" on the short axis and stands 6" high. The average wall thickness is 3/16" and weighs 9 oz. This piece is currently on display display at the MFA Gallery in Annapolis, MD...

Big Leaf Maple bowl. The outside of the bowl was textured with a ball peen hammer and burnt with a propane torch. Finished with danish oil. Approx. 6" diameter.

Swietenia mahogani - West Indies Mahogany (Florida grown - thanks Ed McDonnell) 9d x 3, BLO then Crystal Clear wax

Swietenia mahogani - West Indies Mahogany (Florida grown - thanks Ed McDonnell) 9d x 3, BLO then Crystal Clear wax See next photo for "sweet" figure

Norfolk Island Pine That piece no one uses between the branch knots. 6d x 4, BLO then Crystal Clear wax.

Swietenia mahogani - West Indies Mahogany 6d x 2h, BLO then Crystal Clear wax

See my site for more/better photos and info. I call this "Neighbors" because my stupid neighbor decided that every tree on his property had to go. I heard the chainsaws and paid off the landscapers to bring me the trunk with the burl and the main crotch. The burl is easily...

Get more photos & details on my site. From a mulberry branch. The vase is an end grain, natural edge design and the bowl was the left over wood still on the chuck when I parted off the vase. Too pretty to waste. Turned wet down to about 1/16" and allowed to warp. Vase is 4...

After seeing all the dyed items lately I had to finally try it for myself. I have some small black ash cores from bowls that I had saved for enhancement practice and I felt these would be good for dyeing. This 6.5x2.5 bowl was dyed with Sumi ink, sealed with oil finish and then a coat of...

Cocobolo with a pure wax finish. This is one of those turnings where all the flaws work together to become something else.

This is Ambrosia Maple 7" in diameter at the rim and 2" at the base. Bowl is 3" tall and has a nominal wall thickness of 3/8". 3 Walnut stitches are in the limb inclusions for strength and looks. Finish is 3 coats of Watco Danish Oil and a top coat of Waterlox Tung oil...