spheres

Learn how to turn a marble or ball on the wood lathe! World renowned wood turner, Dick Sing walks you through the process step by step. I will be posting a video series of about 30 videos related to wood turning with Dick Sing. These videos were part of my original DVD video magazine...

Inspired by the work of painter Peter Max..... A variety of woods turned, carved, colored, constructed. Little Roger is carved from basswood. The pedestal includes an adjustable ball mount to vary the plane of the cosmos. 11" x 14". Thank you for looking!

A present to my daughter. Mixed woods.

"The World Within" A sphere within a sphere within a sphere, locked in place by two finals with the points meeting in the center. Turned from Pear, pierced, pyrographed, textured, with the center sphere painted red. Far more work than l envisioned and really wanted to do. Making a half decent...

First, a disclaimer. There are many ways to turn a sphere on the lathe. Some work better than others, and my way isn't necessarily the best way. It's just the way I do it! Though a "perfect" sphere can be challenging to achieve, you can turn near-perfect spheres without specialized jigs...

An experiment using black on black with leather dye Edit - sandcarved citrus

Here is a pic of my latest, destined for the Instant Gallery in Phoenix. Big Leaf Maple Burl, 16+ inches diameter, 3+ inches deep. Balls are jatoba, Bloodwood, Birch, Black Cottonwood Burl, Ash and others. The bigger brother to this piece is going to the EOG auction. It is 19 inches in...

Here is my latest ... big leaf maple burl bowl, 19 x 3 1/2, oil and wax, buffed. Wooden spheres/balls of various species and sizes and surface treatments. Will be in Instant Gallery in Poenix ... unless you buy it first :) Comments and critiques welcomed.

Here are some shots of my Sunday output. The first is a shot of a BLM Burl bowl, 19 inches x 3+. When completed it will contain a myriad of turned and decorated wooden sphere. Examples are included below. The frst of the 4 is a 3 inch diameter (they are all 3 inches) sphere with white...

With my cancer surgery only 1 week away, I have been busy getting things ready so that I can keep busy during the 6-8 week recovery period. The surgeon says i will be unable to and not feel like lifting anything over 10 lbs, so, I have been preparing for things I CAN do that are light weight...

Here are a few pix of my latest endeavor. I have been experimenting with spheres for about a year now and I think I have gotten the hang of it. Tell me what you think. Woods are paduak, zebra wood, walnut, maple, maple burl, bloodwood and cocobolo.

Spheres 1-3 inch diameter. Apple, Boxelder, Oak, and Cherry on a board of butternut bark.

Spheres in differnt timbers the largest 6inches dia Burnt then buffed with jewellers rouge