hollow form

4” x 3”, two coats of sanding sealer and buffed to a semi-gloss First time working with California buckeye. A bit grainier than most woods, but I found it to be very easy to turn and sand. Love how light it is; with walls at about 1/8”, this piece weighs in at just over one ounce. Didn’t want...

4.25”d x 3.5”h My 2nd and last chunk of LV from the Panama Canal Railroad. Glad this one made it off the lathe :)

6”d x 4”h

5.5”d x 3.5”h .

Big Leaf Maple with a bit of figure, a bit of spalt, and a bit of added texture. Approx 6”d x 4”h

3.5” x 3.5”; finished with shellac, buffed with brown tripoli and white diamond. When I milled this maple last summer, I saw glimpses of the spalting, but I wasn’t expecting this much color variation. The prominent grays in this piece give it a California buckeye feel, IMO. Was worried it...

3” x 3” Kept things simple with this form; with masur, the grain does all the talking 🤩. Got the walls down to about 1/8" and the weight under two ounces.

inherited this unwieldly oak burl from fellow turner/friend about 4 years ago. continually contemplated where/how to start with it. Inspired by another club member who had a similar piece I finally dove it. I hate roughing out, but everyone of the felt like roughing from start to finish but...

3.5” x 3.5”, finished with shellac and microfine Yorkshire grit, buffed with a flannel wheel Came into a chunk of big leaf maple burl a couple of months back and decided to use it for a series of small hollow forms. I’d recently started using a set of Hollow Pro rocket tools, so it was a good...

8” diameter, finished with Danish oil and buffed with brown tripoli compound The spalting in this piece was fairly advanced, which made the wood slightly punky and challenging to turn cleanly. I knew the bark inclusion would be the star, but wanted a separate rim to create a sense of...

5” x 5” hollow form turned from Claro walnut. Finished with several coats of shellac and buffed with white diamond compound. March 2024.

I attempted to spalt this chunk of pecan but after peaking inside the bag at 3 months and 6 months I detected nothing but large cracks so I gave up. 3 years later cleaning up my storage area I hauled out the pecan and was about to split it up for firewood when low and behold it had spalted! I...

...........Not Apple, of course, lol. Walnut, 8x8 inches Could not bring myself to do any more embellishment than this. I thought "Simple, plain, good wood" and let it be.

Navet Noir (Black Turnip), 4.5”d x 3.5”h. I started this piece earlier this year for demos. Each “section” showed a different stage of the embellishment process. Friday morning I decided to finish it up to bring to a show that was opening that evening. I’m glad I did because it sold in the...

Cottonwood 13.5 inches tall A slightly different band on this one and a few bees to find.

I turned this maple hollow for and tried a simple walnut finial.

Cottonwood 12.75 x 6.75 inches #20!!! I am surprised I even made another, they really kick my butt...oof!

I turned this footed vessel from a piece of nicely spalted beech. It is 8.5" tall and 5.5" in diameter. I used a wood burner to create the texture on the banding. I like how the burned texture in the banding accentuates the spalting.

Sweet Memories Turned from Pear, hollowed, pyrographed, carved, painted, and a touch of gilders paste on top of the carved section. This side shows Japanese women in traditional garb, the opposite side is a Japanese man also in traditional dress, and the other two sides show a Japanese Maple...

This hollow form vessel was turned with 1/2" wall thickness. It was then carved with a Fordom and Micromotor tools. After the final shape was achieved the surface was burned with pyrography pen followed by India ink and blue gray colors applied with a dry brush technique. The vessel is 6" tall...