hackberry

Hackberry crotch with ipe finial.

Spalted Hackberry Bowl.

Spalted Hackberry Bowl.

I live in the Houston area and have some pecan, oak, and hackberry stored under an open-sided lean-to off of my steel building. My son wanted a decent sized pecan limb for a small turning project of his. I had trimmed a pecan branch off of a tree that was hanging over our fence more than a year...

My neighbor is cutting several trees at the back of his lot. One is some type of cherry which I'm going to pick up a few pieces- love to turn cherry. The other has a real light wood which he said was hackberry. Worth drying and turning? Thanks.

Egg Shaped Spalted Hackberry with Maple Finial and pierced Fleur De Lei pattern. 2" w x 6" h. The main part of this ornament was turned and hollowed like a box and then glued together. The glue line can be seen if you really look, but the spalting and piercing pattern cover it pretty...

Spalted Hackberry and African Blackwood. 7" x 4"

This HF is from a piece of Hackberry given to me by a friend in Arkansas. It has been setting in my shop for a year and was dry and as hard as concrete. The lid and finial are Ebony. Measures 6-1/2" dia. x 13-1/2" tall overall. Finished with antique oil and buffed.

Lightly spalted hackberry bowl with texturing trim on bowl rim. Finish is Danish Oil with wax polish. Size is 7 1/2" w by 2 1/2" h. Sorby texturing tool used for trim work.

7 1/2"w x 3"h

These multi-axis ducks are turned from hackberry and padauk. Each is approximately 2 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" high with a Deft lacquer finish. Although the original duck idea was inspired by Mike Darlow, I have added my own touches by adding the tail feather feature and the slooped back to...

Eccentric bowl, hackberry with aluminum legs. 4"h x 4.75"w The legs were turned/tapered on the lathe then bent. Both materials were sanded to 600 grit. Wood was finished with several tung oil coats. Legs were coated with carnauba wax then buffed. Comments are always welcome.

Sugarberry textured bowl #1, 4"h x 10"w, textured and dyed exterior, finished with tung oil

10" diameter, finished with tung oil. Wood is partially spalted...what sugarberry isn't? :-) Often called hackberry locally.