maple

This piece of booked matched curly maple didn't need much to enhance it, so I thought some subtle piercing would work. This piece is a bit deeper and more "bowl-like" than the platter I did with a similar look. About 2" h x 10.5" dia

Another shot based on input from Clemens to better show the walnut and the form. Thanks Clemens!

Vessel: Maple Burl (Domestic) Collar: African Blackwood (Exotic) Dimensions: 3.25"h x 3.875"w You can go to my gallery to more/larger shots of this piece. The link is in my signature.

Vessel: Maple Burl (Domestic) Collar: African Blackwood (Exotic) Dimensions: 3.25"h x 3.875"w You can go to my gallery to more/larger shots of this piece. The link is in my signature.

7.25" by 3". Started out as a multi-axes maple globe that was so blah I almost tossed it. After the final flip of the axis there was not enough meat left to get rid of the marks from the head/tail stocks so I made them a tad deeper and epoxied the buttons in after covering the globe...

Bleached Maple Bowl featuring a burned and colored design. Colored using Prismacolor Markers and finished using Spray Lacquer

Spalted Wormy Maple Hollow Form, 14" tall 9" Circumference featuring a Deep burned textured Tree Shape Pyrography in band. Made in two pieces

A piece of silver maple turned into a box shape inspired by Richard Raffan's spire series and dyed. The box is 2 3/4" in diameter and 5" tall.

11" dia. x 4 1/2" h. - A simple form with a uniform thickness of about 1/16". This is one of the more "useful" shapes I've done in a while, but it seeemd to go with the size of the blank and the location of the pin stripe. The pin stripe is a 1/12" thick piece of...

sycamore, walnut, big leaf maple, largest 10-7/8d x 8, smallest 5d x 5-3/16

Silver Maple, dye and acrylic paint. 12"x2.5"

A finialed hollow form in spalted Norway maple and TransTint dyed holly. The finial includes a replication of the hollow form vessel just under the spike. The original block of maple weighed about 55 ounces. The finished piece including the finial weighs 4.5 ounces. This piece is one of the...

This guy is about 7" dia. with a pierced rim. The edge of the rim is friction burned.

This piece was created from a highly spalted piece of maple. It measures 14" w by 3" h and was made for use as a fruit bowl. It is slightly deeper than a platter but shallower than a bowl of this size. Mahoney's Walnut Oil finish was used as this piece is intended for food use...

Birdseye Maple Burl, 1/16th inch x 18" winged bowl

Burl Maple with textured rim. 17" dia. x 4" high. Textured with Arbortech Industrial Blade Pro.

I'm having fun. Last Wednesday I was in Duluth, MN, with Mike Hunter and some friends to try some of Mike

I turned this spalted maple pot 4.75x4.5x3 from a chunk I found in the woodlot getting firewood. I had to turn it when I saw the spalting in the end and this is what resulted. The pot has a round bottom and squatted as it dried. The finish is several coats of Waterlox. I am starting to like...

This is a spalted maple bowl I turned for my cousin's wedding gift approximately 12"x5". This was also my first use of the woodburning kit I got at the AAW Symposium.

A simple bowl turned from a piece of spalted Norway Maple. This piece was roughed out as a demonstration piece during a course that I taught at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts earlier this year. Width at rim: 6 5/16" Height: 4 1/16" Base Diameter: 1 3/4" Wall Thickness...