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My first calabash. Maple

Here's a side view of the turning that provides a better view of the textured surface that resembles corn. The rising brown Walnut 'husks' resemble the outer layers of a corn stalk that hasn't been picked. Height is 12 inches.

This 12-inch tall vase was turned from a block of Walnut. A 3-point multi-axis approach was used to create the twist. Texturing and coloring were added in the carved sections between the rising 'stalks'. When I finished the piece it reminded me of a stalk of corn with strands of brown husk...

Turnings are either orphans or turned by Natural Selection Studio and I did the embellishment. Standing approximately 4 - 5 inches tall.

Box is about 3 inches tall and about 2 inches in diameter. Finished with gloss lacquer. The figuring is really nice on this piece.

I tried to make it look like a hollow for was emerging from this hunk of burl. About 9 inches high, finished with shellac sealer and lacquer sprayed from a can.

Turned from Pear. My feeble attempt to make it look like porcelain.

2 of a 10 piece wall art commission, Norfolk with some Paduak accents. Turned to an ogee platter, carved, design and pyro. Each is different but under the same graphic theme.

A sort of a basket illusion. 5 1/2" tall, 3 1/2" diameter. Cherry. Turned, burned, dyed, sanded, painted, and reactive paints. Pretty much what I was going for from the get-go.

14" x 3" Cottonwood bowl with a pyro'd feather design (Maria Martinez inspired). 84 feathers if you're counting. Danish oil finish.

125mm high 75mm dia finished in Antique Oil and buffed

Curly Koa bowl with bark inclusion at the base. About 9" across, sanded to 600 and finished with Mahoney's oil finish

Goblet with the burl surface on the exterior of the bowl (and top of the foot). Big Leaf Maple, about 6-1/4" tall (bowl is 3-1/4" diameter). Stem is hard maple dyed with India ink. Finish is spray lacquer.

A side view of the previous bowl.

This is an off cut from a fence post that I saved for a long time before turning this. I managed to preserve the milled texture of the post (and I preserved a crack as well :-) ) on the top surface. 6" dia. Shellac finish.

Holly, blackwood, pyrography, and metal wire sprayed black; measures 9 x 5 x 3

The other side of the same ornament

Spalted Myrtle with a threaded African Blackwood lid. 6 3/4" diameter by 9" tall. Satin waterborne lacquer finish.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Basketweave pattern in Segmenting; I think Tom Lohman’s Tubular pattern inspired this piece!! 21k plus pieces of Pernambuco, Bloodwood, Yellowheart, Wenge, Holly and Maple; all individually glued into a vase 18.5” tall, 14.5” at it’s widest point. This was built...

Top view. Sorry about the crooked photo.