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sycamore

  1. Sycamore hollow form

    Sycamore hollow form

    10" tall and pretty thin walls (1/4 to 3/8" at the bottom) for me. Lots of storms this spring/summer. This sycamore (what this hollow form is on) fell across our road and in the culvert. Most of it is still in the creek. It will take a larger tractor than mine to get out. I did grab a branch...
  2. Sycamore Fish Bowl

    Sycamore Fish Bowl

    6” x 2.5” hand carved, Polymerized Tung Oil. I find the carved shapes resemble schools of tiny fish swirling out of the depths.
  3. Textured sycamore bowl

    Textured sycamore bowl

    11” x 4”, finished with Walrus oil and buffed with brown tripoli Evidence that I make things other than shiny hollow forms 😅. Made this bowl as a housewarming gift for some friends who just built a new home. Their only ask what that the bowl could hold their remote controls, so I make the base...
  4. Sycamore 6.5x2

    Sycamore 6.5x2

    Twice turned sycamore. Wood was taken from a fallen tree on the local college campus. Kiln dried. Danish oil finish.
  5. Sycamore 6.5x2

    Sycamore 6.5x2

    Twice turned sycamore. Wood was taken from a fallen tree on the local college campus. Kiln dried. Danish oil finish.
  6. Cyllene

    Cyllene

    5.5in x 7in hollowed vessel from a spalted sycamore
  7. Cyllene

    Cyllene

    5.5in x 7in hollowed vessel from a spalted sycamore
  8. Say Cheese!

    Say Cheese!

    Sycamore, pyrography, metal leaf 10.25x 3.375 Cheesecake, quirky like most cats, favored napping in the bathroom sink. A bit different for me, this simple vessel design was selected to allow emphasis to be on the pyrographic image of Cheesecake rather than the bowl.
  9. zephyr

    zephyr

    Carved sycamore approx 5 x 5 inches ebonised. Names after a healing wind.
  10. Comet

    Comet

    Sycamore. Pierced, and pyrographed. Approx 13 inches in diameter.
  11. Hollow form with carved rim

    Hollow form with carved rim

    Spalted sycamore hollow form. 13-1/2 tall x 5-1/2 wide. Turned from wood salvaged from a local park tree, though the spalting is the accidental result from the bolt being waxed and stored upright on my garage floor. Not sure about the orange spots, but they're pretty cool.
  12. Pierced Sycamore Ornament

    Pierced Sycamore Ornament

    This Sycamore Ornament has Walnut finials. It won 1st place in our local, South Kansas Woodturners, club contest for both the lightest and the best looking. It measures about 2 1/2" w x 5" h and has a wall thickness ranging from .030 to .050. The design is comprised of the word, NOEL...
  13. Sycamore Hollow Form

    Sycamore Hollow Form

    A pretty nondescript piece of sycamore. 8-1/2" dia. x 13-3/4" tall. Walls at about 1/8". Finished with antique oil and buffed.
  14. Spiraled Sycamore Vase

    Spiraled Sycamore Vase

    Finish turned green from section of log, dried, spirally carved and dyed with an airbrush. The piece was allowed to dry and move indoors. Movement was retained due to finish turning the base to retard end checking. Dharma fiber reactive dyes were sealed with 3 coats of Waterlox Tung oil and...
  15. Wave Vase

    Wave Vase

    This vase was end grain and finish turned from green Sycamore to final dimensions of 6 diameter by 11 high and 3/16 wall thickness. The vase was bagged and allowed to dry and move to its final form over 2 months. The v shaped rim was carved and the wave figures pyrographically added and dyed...
  16. Chess Table

    Chess Table

    This is the 3rd chess table I made. The squares are 2" squared, maple and mahogany. The pieces are maple and padauk with the kings being about 4.5" tall. They were friction polished and embelished with glass marbles. Not pictured are the checker pieces to match. The board is...
  17. Spalted FOG wood

    Spalted FOG wood

    Probably sycamore. Warped like crazy, but I like it that way on this bowl. That thing that looks like a tenon on the bottom is actually ... a tenon, but if I remove the tenon, I will have a funnel.
  18. Carnivorous Pod

    Carnivorous Pod

    Sycamore- turned & carved, carved maple, driftwood, plant fibers, & acrylic paint. Aprox. 10w x 6d x 7t My wife has a wonderful collection of cactus, succulents, and carnivorous plants. In my thought these weird plants have been cross pollinating and this is the result.
  19. Attributes

    Attributes

    White & black = 11.5d x 9.5t, white & tan = 11.5d x 10.5t Attributes is the result of a collaborative effort between Andrea Tucker-Hody and myself. We prepared these for an upcoming show here in Marin County (CA). Andrea is a master paper artist and she used my sycamore vessel (the...
  20. 3 Vessels

    3 Vessels

    sycamore, walnut, big leaf maple, largest 10-7/8d x 8, smallest 5d x 5-3/16
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