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  1. Celestron Fun

    Celestron Fun

    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.
    • James Smith
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    • sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  2. Mulberry Paperweight

    Mulberry Paperweight

    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...
    • Truffuls
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    • form hollow mulberry paperweight sphere
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Member Galleries
  3. Rosewood burl sphere

    Rosewood burl sphere

    4" Rosewood burl sphere
    • mike neitzel
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    • sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  4. Madrone sphere

    Madrone sphere

    6" Madrone burl sphere
    • mike neitzel
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    • madrone sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  5. Saturn

    Saturn

    Walnut Mullberry Sphere Photo: Arlan Heiser
    • rmuniak
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    • ball sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  6. Arrowhead

    Arrowhead

    24" x 12" x 3" and 4" sphere Photo Arlan Heiser
    • rmuniak
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    • ball oak sphere
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  7. Amish Bowl

    Amish Bowl

    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...
    • rmuniak
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    • ball oak sphere
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  8. Earth in the Balance spring 2008 contest

    Earth in the Balance spring 2008 contest

    This multi-axis turning was done on a secret makeshift machine. Made from ash and box-elder. Photo by: Arlan Heiser
    • rmuniak
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    • sphere woodturning
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Member Galleries
  9. Spring 2008 contest

    Spring 2008 contest

    "Gibbous" bottle brush, hollowed, 2 5/8", white gesso, molding paste
    • bob elliott
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    • sphere
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Member Galleries
  10. Spring 2008 Contest

    Spring 2008 Contest

    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.
    • 1woodworker
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    • 2008 contest sphere spring
    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Bob & Tim Collaboration
  11. Sphere with Conical base

    Sphere with Conical base

    Chinese elm, 14 inches tall x 12 inches diameter. Wood recycled/reclaimed from urban tree blown down in Anaheim during big windstorm last Fall.
    • Bob Hadley
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    • elm recycled sphere
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Member Galleries
  12. From the Depths

    From the Depths

    Turned and carved maple, tubing with handmade bronze and copper hardware
    • Gareth Griffith
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    • bronze copper metal round sphere
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  13. Healthy/Ill Detail

    Healthy/Ill Detail

    Detail shot
    • Gareth Griffith
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    • ball carved gareth griffith round sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  14. Healthy/Ill

    Healthy/Ill

    Turned and carved poplar that was then air brushed with a variety of acrylics and inks resting on a turned stand.
    • Gareth Griffith
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    • ball carved gareth griffith round sphere
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Member Galleries
  15. Healthy/Ill

    Healthy/Ill

    Turned and carved poplar that was then air brushed with a variety of acrylics and inks resting on a turned stand.
    • Gareth Griffith
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    • ball carved gareth griffith round sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  16. Spheres

    Spheres

    Various woods, largest 5.5 diameter, smallest 1 diameter. Spheres are always good practice and almost any piece of wood can be used.
    • S. Clark
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    • ball orb sphere
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  17. Wormhole Maze

    Wormhole Maze

    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.
    • arnward
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    • maze sphere worm
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  18. Hollow Sphere

    Hollow Sphere

    Cedar hollow sphere, teak oiled, buffed, waxed.
    • uncleSteve
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    • cedar hollow sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  19. turned Polo Balls

    turned Polo Balls

    Hollowed from solid plastic polo balls.
    • Richard Preston
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    • alternative ball hollow material plastic sphere
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
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