texturing

Pyrography, texturing and colour - another iteration of these techniques. The two hours of embellishing flew by! Such fun!

This came about after a session of pyrography and rotary tool use over a rim that had been textured previously with a router jig that cut the tapered blue flutes. The name Pathways came to me some days later. It was so enjoyable spending the time on this - more will come, I'm sure! The wood is...

Obviously this is not a a typical Gallery post but I had fun gathering together pictures of my carved textures on finished bowls. I used a variety of woods, dyes and acrylic paints. All were hand carved except one used a Dremel.

Turned, carved cherry

Turned, carved, textured red maple. Sometimes known as Ambrosia Maple. $40 for a bowl blank, it's ambrosia maple. $40 for a log, it's red maple! 9" dia made around 2010

For the past couple of years I've been using my laser engraver to do my signatures and engrave Beads Of Courage logos on other turners BOC boxes. Lately I've been experimenting with using the laser to embellish rims of bowls and platters either alone or in conjunction with other colouring...

I started in flat woodworking and one of the cardinal rules was NO oil, silicon, WD40, etc. anywhere it could contact wood. If it happened you could / would have a problem in the finishing stage. Is Woodturning different? I see videos that say to put a little oil on the bushing in a knurling...

This is a video of how I made the ash bowl I've just posted in the gallery. It combines a number of techniques: using a small angle grinder to create texture; mixing acrylic paint with Kleister medium to make it semi-transparent; colouring with stains; and finishing with lacquer. I hope it's of...

The Peyoke Medicine Bowl is a tribal mortar and pestle. A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind and mix, in this case, medicinal herbs and plants. The mortar, which is almost 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, is the bowl and the pestle, which is just over 5 inches long and 1 1/2...

This piece is for our clubs November President's Challenge which is a collaborative challenge. Stacie Grange and Bill Tilson teamed up to create this piece a couple of Saturdays ago. We wanted to incorporate coloring, inlay, off center turning, texturing, and carving. The inlays were done...

This Russian Olive bowl was fun to turn. The rim has been lightly trimmed using the Sorby texturing tool. I think the small trim gives a little added dressing up to the bowl. The finish is Mahoney Walnut Oil. This bowl measures 9" w by 2 1/2" h and is buffed and waxed with...

Lightly spalted hackberry bowl with texturing trim on bowl rim. Finish is Danish Oil with wax polish. Size is 7 1/2" w by 2 1/2" h. Sorby texturing tool used for trim work.

Burl Maple with textured rim. 17" dia. x 4" high. Textured with Arbortech Industrial Blade Pro.

4" wide x 4" tall cherry form that has been textured inside and out with a Powercrafter, the grid burned with a pyrography pen and then the whole thing colored with Prismacolor markers. Truly, an exercise in patience....

This is a piece that my friend Molly and I have been working on together. It started out as a small hollow vessel that Molly had turned and burned. These are the black lines in between the colored areas. She posted it on the WOW website as a mistake to be burned in the near future. I...

The design incorporates a lip of ~1.5" overlap. The texturing is an exploration in what can be done with the coil burning tip. The design was implemented with an 18g coil woodburning tip used in both continuous lines, as well as a weave pattern. The color is a by-product of the burning...