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Box Elder 10" dome and 3 1/2 tenticles Photo: Barb Muniak Funnest piece I have ever done Great piece of wood from my friend Ron. Lesson learned from my friend Larry (bleach Box elder it whitens the white and reddens the red). The tenticles where first turned to a 7/8 diam wit a 3/8 post...

The planet and rings are aromatic cedar. The base and polar cap is Cocobolo. It's about 7 inches tall and 6 inches in diameter. This was my first try to turn a sphere, and I wanted to make something for my uncle for getting me hooked on astronomy.

Dimensions: 3.25"diameter From the same log as Mulberry Lace and others. This was a lesson on turning a sphere, which is much harder than you would think. Your eye has a hard time seeing a perfect sphere. This was another webcam project. I left this piece heavy so it could be used...

4" Rosewood burl sphere

6" Madrone burl sphere

Walnut Mullberry Sphere Photo: Arlan Heiser

24" x 12" x 3" and 4" sphere Photo Arlan Heiser

20" x 12" x 3" and 5" sphere some kind of oak...Great story getting the oak which I now have a lot of...Had to climb a severe slope to get to it...The deer evidently would mark this tree with their urine creating awfull smelling sawdust..Completely destroyed the...

This multi-axis turning was done on a secret makeshift machine. Made from ash and box-elder. Photo by: Arlan Heiser

"Gibbous" bottle brush, hollowed, 2 5/8", white gesso, molding paste

Collaboration by Tim Heil and Bob Jensen, members of the Minnesota Woodturners Association. 4 inch White Oaksphere painted with red acrylic and finished with shellac. Handle is Birdseye Maple with a shoelace for the pull cord. Photo by Wade Wendorf.

Chinese elm, 14 inches tall x 12 inches diameter. Wood recycled/reclaimed from urban tree blown down in Anaheim during big windstorm last Fall.

Turned and carved maple, tubing with handmade bronze and copper hardware

Detail shot

Turned and carved poplar that was then air brushed with a variety of acrylics and inks resting on a turned stand.

Turned and carved poplar that was then air brushed with a variety of acrylics and inks resting on a turned stand.

Various woods, largest 5.5 diameter, smallest 1 diameter. Spheres are always good practice and almost any piece of wood can be used.

Bleached Maple sphere on a pedistal. Maze hand drawn with India Ink pen. Maze is sufficiently difficult to complete that nobody has bothered to try. Comments Welcome.

Cedar hollow sphere, teak oiled, buffed, waxed.

Hollowed from solid plastic polo balls.