What’s on your lathe?

[odie]

This Birdseye Maple bowl has some outstanding intense eyes......turns nicely.

-o-

 

[robo hippy]

I absolutely did not know that. I’m surprised. Thanks.

From Cook Woods: Also known as Bay Laurel, California Olive, Pepper wood, or Spice tree, this versatile hardwood grows only in Oregon and Northernmost California.

Actually, it grows from about San Francisco up into British Columbia. Still the same tree. It is one that the higher grit you sand to, the more it glows. It does have an interlocking grain, and smells terrible if you burn it.

robo hippy

 

[Henry Martin]

Some recent honey locust pieces. The cereal type bowl is from a crotch piece.

 

[Henry Martin]

Another honey locust bowl.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Spalted sugarberry (surprise!), about 5" x 2.5". Finished with Myland's. This piece has a lot more contrast in the wood colors than others I have turned.

 

[DON FRANK]

This Birdseye Maple bowl has some outstanding intense eyes......turns nicely.

-o-
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A block of wood does not get any prettier than that.

 

[David Wyke]

Final sanding of a 15” x 12-1/4” x 7” at the tallest point Pecan. This bowl elongated over 1” while drying. First coat of DO applied.