Beautiful Firewood Piece

[Jeff Gilfor]

I am not a complete noob (been turning for several years and carving for several years before that), but wanted to share the beauty that nature (God) sometimes tosses at you.

Here is a small (about 8 inches tall) HF weed vase of, what I believe to be spalted maple, that came from a piece of firewood that I started to cut into for bedan practice. Once I noticed the spalting, I changed my mind and made it into this vase. Gotta say that the spalting pattern is some of the nicest I've ever seen.

Firewood pile can yield nice stuff!!!!

 

[MichaelMouse]

A beaut, for sure. Fortunately, Bedans cut all woods the same, so practice is available anywhere.

 

[gary rock]

Jeff-

Great save and a beautiful looking piece with fabulous coloring/spalting.🙂

Gary

 

[Breck Whitworth]

Jeff, That is truly a beautiful piece of wood. Very nice HF to show the wood off. I also love firewood because that's how I got started turning. I took a piece of firewood and it turned out to be a cherry treasure to me.

 

[john lucas]

Excellent. Use scrap 2x4's or something like that for Bedan practice. That way you can just toss them when done. However my first article for Woodturning Design was a skew practice piece that looked like a tall spindle birdhouse. All done with the skew (but could have been done with the Bedan). They were all done turned with 2x2's cut from 2x4's.

 

[Ian Thorn]

I like that the form then turned in at the top nice save you have done it justice.

Ian