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Rose wood waves 2 Some time ago I posted a progress of this piece. Took a while but it is finally finished This time 35 bowls were turned in a piece of Rosewood. I have entered this into the Kawerau Woodskills competition under Traditional woodturning .I maybe pushing it a bit but it is...

This is a hollow form I turned from a piece of cherry. I didn't like the grain on it so I coated it with black gesso and then burnished the ridges to make them shiny which makes a nice contrast to the matte finish in the recesses. I couldn't get a good detail photo, but it makes a nice textured...

Some detail shots of the ornamental turning. The one on the left is the body, looking into the box. The one on the right is the inner lid detail. Note the spiraling pattern around the circumference of the pattern on the inner lid. This was a tool mark and I left it in because I like it...

This is the climax of my pocket box series. The outside is smooth and plain, and the inside features some of my rose engine turning. The idea behind this box is to create a box for the sole purpose of containing it's own design. In the words of Jeff Lavine "to keep the inside in and...

Here's a "pocket box" with some different wood. I really like how ornamental turning looks with africian blackwood. For those of you who havn't read the description of my first "pocket box", Here's the basic idea: My goal is to make a box with precious contents...

I just love making boxes. I am intrigued by the idea of a "surprise" when they are opened. I guess you could say I'm obsessed with interior decorating at the moment. I like the idea of making a box with precious contents intrinsic to it's self. This box exists only to hide...

This is the largest vessel I've done ornamental embelishments on. The diameter at the thickest point is aprox 4". This "jar" is made of maple, bloodwood and blackwood. The finish is walnut oil, wax, and lots of buffing/ hand rubbing. Around the body I cut 60 indexed...

A box turned on my Rose Engine Lathe. Mahogony and Walnut. 3" wide. Finish is walnut oil and wax. Buffed to a low sheen, and hand rubbed with 'lots of love. I was shooting for a natural finish with a patina. I want the finish to look like the box has been handled for many years...

Another ornamental box. The leaf pattern is 100% turned (not carved). It is repeated 4x around. Each repeat is perfectly indexed and EXACTLY the same ... believe it. This was done on my home made rose engine lathe. It's cocobollo and blackwood with a small glass finial. It stands only...

only 3" tall. Cherry, bloodwood and blackwood. Features a small glass bead as a finial. The blackwood insert is an example of ornamental turning. The finish is oil and wax

A small walnut box (4' tall) finished with oil and wax. The insert is african blackwood.

"Woodland Droid". 7" tall. Wipe on Poly finish for the body, and wax finish for the finial. Wenge, Walnut, Bloodwood, Aluminum and Blackwood. The blackwood finial features 6 indexed "cones in valleys". I call this one "woodland Droid" because the aluminum...

Apple, Mahogony, Blackwood, and Vera wood. Stands 9.5" tall. Sanded 1500. Finished with danish oil, wax, and plenty of buffing. The ornamental finial features 12 flutes, a "flower" pattern repeated 4X and 4 repeated indented cones at the top. Thanks for looking! Henry

Cocobolo with blackwood insert inside the lid. 6 vertical rows of 13 cuts. Each cut is 12 degrees offset from the cut below it. Cuts are 1/16 apart. Each vertical row deviates 120 degrees from it's starting point at the bottom. 3.5" high. Oil finish. Please view detail pictures as...

-Blood wood and wenge -8.5" tall -Oil finish The finial features a pattern repeated 4X. It also features convex fluting (most regular woodturning flutes are concave). The body features 60 cuts, 6 vertical rows of 10 cuts each. Each cut is offset 6 degrees from the one below it...

Details of rose engine turned patterns.

4" tall. Oil & wax finish. Cocobollo multi axis ornamental turning. Pattern repeated 6x around the base. 12 flutes on the top.

4" tall. Cocobollo. Oil and Wax finish. Multi-axis ornamental turning. 2 patterns repeated 6 times around the surface of the body.

Cocobollo, pear and walnut.