maple

Maple sphere 5 1/4” in diameter with pyrography embellishment.

Once turned 'full log' soft Maple spherical hollow form with piths galore! Well, almost spherical. My first run at a pure spherical shape just by eye. Same tree as Soft Maple Hollow Form. I'm wondering if there is too much going on with the wood? Thoughts? I still like it and have more in line...

Every day the dogs and I walk by this downed tree. Every day I wonder if it is spalting, it is a maple after all. Two years I wondered until I finally ask the neighbor if I can have it, or at least cut into it and see. Getting the green light and hoping for spalting galore I find none. What I...

4.5” x 4.5” This was one of those pieces that I nearly gave up on a few times. The dramatic spalting drew me in, but the wood was very punky in several spots (probably too punky tbh). The mouth of this vessel is much larger than my usual because the original rim disintegrated as soon as I...

In a well lit room this maple bowl portrays a garden in daylight. In a dimmer room with a spotlight on the center of the inside, the butterflies and foliage turn to shadows as though in moonlight reflected off a lake. 6 inches diameter and 5 inches deep. Flowers and ground cover done entirely...

Oak top, Mahogany stem & Red Maple base

Here are the four bowls I was able to successfully pull from the tops of a Maple tree downed in a storm years ago. This one, https://www.aawforum.org/community/media/just-a-maple-bowl.24016/, (right top here) was the punkest. The others were much more stable. They defiantly have the wow factor...

The tree this, and several more in line, came from fell in a bad storm three years ago. I used to tap this tree every spring in the sugar season! I cut up the base up into perfectly clean 8/4 lumber. The upper part of this tree sat down by the creek until I rediscovered it this last winter. Most...

I turned this because the president of our club asked me when I was gonna a make a bigger goblet. I had been making 1.5" x 5", but this one is about 2.25x. I hadnt wanted to make a bigger goblet becuase the stems I was making were really skinny, and the unsupported weight of the cup may break...

This 7 by 4 inch thin-wall maple bowl has two Monarch butterflies hovering around a milkweed flower. The butterflies are done with Derwent Inktense pencils and the inside is silver blue acrylic. The natural figure of this end-grain maple bowl is highlighted by piercing every second growth ring.

Small flame maple vanity box. Birdseye maple inlay on button lid. 10 staves capped with 20 segment rim. 3.25" D, 3" H

I showed this bowl in unfinished form at the Feb 8 Thin Wall demonstration I gave to the Seattle Chapter membership. Before I started piercing I showed it to one of our members who commented on the wonderful figure of the maple . I decided to pierce every alternate ring of the figure in order...

Cross-grain Maple box with a hand-chased 8tpi thread. Approx 75mm (3”) diameter. Finished with Hardwax oil and lightly buffed.

Multi-axis turned whale in maple on a sapele base. Inspired by a passage from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where against all likelihood a sperm whale comes into existence above the planet Magrathea.

The city began removing a dying maple that was also rubbing a street light wire across the street from me this week. By yesterday they were getting closer to the trunk of the tree and by the afternoon the color started to show. I stepped over a mentioned I may want to talk them out of a piece...

My first gallery post here. Walnut and maple. 9" diameter. 3" tall.

Maple platter 11.25" dia. Airbrushed maple leaves.

Carved with a v-shaped chisel head, then dyed thoroughly with black spirit stain. I didn't know when I finished the inside that I would be coliring the outside, so I waxed the inside, which left a bit of an inconsistent finish.

This Range Rider hat is turned from spalted Maple. I was taught how to turn hats from master turner and fellow OVWG member/friend Dave Kratzer. This one is a mini hat, 7.25 inches diameter and 3.25 inches tall. Sanded, bent in a bending jig and finished with gloss lacquer. They are fun to make!!

Maple hollow vessel, carved and textured. Colored with acrylics.