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Bowls

Quilted Maple bowl -- 8", extreme grain variation, but turned without tear out

African Olive bowl -- 10", turns and even smells a little like Rosewood

Figured Mahogany bowl -- 6", the dark lines contain voids

Zebrawood and Walnut bowl -- 6", zebrawood is very hard with interlocked grain

Bamboo bowl -- 7 1/2" turned from laminated bamboo strips

Myrtle Burl bowl -- 7", not as much burl figure as I had hoped, but pretty just the same

Bubinga bowl -- 6", reddish color will fade a little with time

Padauk bowl -- 6", pretty wood, but you better have a dust collector while turning it

Claro Walnut bowl -- 6", somewhat tighter grain and lighter in color than Black Walnut

Cherry bowl -- 6", easy to turn, somewhat soft

Jatoba bowl -- 6", sometimes called Brazilian Cherry, like turning concrete

Bocote bowl -- 6", Bocote is a member of the Cordia family, polishes well

Laminated bowl -- 5", unknown woods, turned from thrift store cheese cutter block

Crab Apple bowl -- 5" turned from a crab apple tree removed from neighbor's yard

 

Dishes and Fruit Bowls

Rosewood candy dish -- 5", Rosewood is a joy to turn and polishes nicely

Bubinga candy dish -- 6", turns nicely and takes a good polish

Canary Wood candy dish with Cherry lid -- 5", wood was in a grab bag I bought

Myrtle fruit bowl -- 9", Oregon Myrtle has a tight grain and turns nicely

Circassian Walnut fruit bowl -- 9", European Walnut, very light in color but nice

Mahogany dish -- 6", Mahogany can be somewhat soft but this piece was fairly hard

Monkeypod dish -- 8", beautiful color, but very soft and open grained

 

Boxes

Desert Ironwood box with lid -- 8" tall, wood came from a small twisted tree section

Lignum Vitae Box with Lid -- 5", interesting wood, contains a lot of oil and polishes easily

 

Vases and Hollow Forms

Figured Myrtle vase -- 8", wood contained an interesting dark brown mineral (?) stain

Spalted Birch vase -- (from a tree in my front yard, salvaged from my firewood pile)

Mahogany vase -- 8" tall, textured bands made with wire brush, edges wire-burned

Rosewood bud vase -- 9" tall, one of my wife's favorites

Weed pots with natural edge -- turned from a neighbor's dead apple tree

Bud vase -- 10" tall, turned from same apple tree as weed pots

Another bud vase -- turned from another neighbors crab apple tree

 

Practice Pieces (from a Birch Tree in my yard)

Birch bowl

Another Birch bowl

Birch vase

Partially Spalted Birch hollow form

Another Birch hollow form

 

Household Items

Colorado Aspen and Walnut lamp -- 17" tall and nearly 6" in diameter

Walnut Salt and Pepper Set -- 7" tall, purposely made small for daily kitchen table use

Walnut coffee mug rack -- made for kitchen

Rosewood Screwdriver with 4 tips uses Rockler hardware kit

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