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Ornate sphere, with walls at about 3/16" thick. Made from a single piece of Bradford Pear (well, two pieces– the cap was parted off and then glued back in after hollowing). After piercing, it was gilded in a metal reactive gold and placed in a Box Elder burl, hopefully to look like a relic...

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

Shperes of ornamental plum, torched, sanded and spray lacquered. Each sphere is 4 1/2" in diameter approximately

Walnut from my dad's backyard 4 1/2" diameter. I used a skew to cut the incision lines.

Turned from a manzanita root snag that was hard as woodpecker lips. Luckily no imbedded rocks to deal with. It looks fragile but really is not. About 8".

Hickory sphere, White Oak pedestal, Niove base, and Betel nut "gem". This was fun piece to put together, a translation of a thought into wood. I turned the sphere quite a while ago, and used it as a sort of practice piece for textures and patterns. I decided to carve the surface away and add a...

2 Spheres interlocked 32 mm in diameter inside a sphere 65 mm in diameter (same piece of holly wood). A second captived sphere 1.5 mm in thickness broke on the last mini opening.

A sphere 65mm in diameter with 3 captived spheres and a dodecahedron 21mm in diameter (same piece of maple).

A 6-1/2" footed sphere, cut, hollowed and reassembled. Then a "lid" with a hidden box and hand threaded lid, a great spot to hide in plain sight those small things that need to be so handled. I'll judge not your choice of contents And finally some texture, fire and subtle color. Thank you for...

Pear wood sphere with inclusion of zinc strips .6"

Auminite resin and a Cottonwood burl

A sphere of 65 mm with 6 spheres inside in maple. The mother sphere has 3 mm wall, the other 5 have 2 mm wall and the central sphere is 7.5 mm radius.

The 3 components

After 1 year of no activities on my lathe, I am back. A sphere of 65 mm with 6 spheres inside in maple. The mother sphere has 3 mm wall, the other 5 have 2 mm wall and the central sphere is 7.5 mm radius. The spiral support idea comes from “The Manuel du Tourneur” by L. E. Bergeron, 1816...

Another globe I made a few years ago. This one is made of cherry with dyed oceans and pyrographed country, state, and continental boundaries. Constructed with polyhedral construction as 60 hexagons, and 12 pentagons. It was way too big to fit on my old Rockwell lathe, so I made a special...

A 2.7" diameter 32 piece sphere made with 20 walnut hexagons, and 12 maple pentagons. Each piece was cut on table saw using a jig I designed. It was glued together all at once using long open time glue, stretch-wrap, and then a large rubber band as a clamp. After gluing, I turned it on my...

A while back I was researching how to turn a sphere and if I needed a jig. I came across a video where a compass was used to draw a bunch of circles and where ever two circles intersected a hole was drilled. Does anyone recall this video? Please send me a link.

Maple sphere and off axis platter. Figured maple colored with TransTint dyes. Lacquer finish.

A group of boxes I made for my wife and children. The front and right ones were inspired by the vision of a U.S. sailor wearing a "Dixie Cup" hat and dungarees. The left one is my first attempt at a sphere box and the back my first attempt at a deep box. They vary in size from...

Two of these are cherry with some rings cut with a skew. The other is of spalted River Birch. The bases have concaved so you can give the spheres a little spin. They are about 2 1/2" in diameter.