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Blue Tailed Pinguin
Yes another bird. Body is a bowling pin from the 50s and the head is cherry. Turned, cut apart, reassembled, pyro work, carved and dry brush painted. Tail to bill it stands 13 inches tall. View this...
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Spalted Maple Ornament
The globe is Spalted Maple, with ebony icicle and top. With a spray lacquer finish. View this media item
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Fluted Arbutus Bowl
While I have fluted a number of bowls over the years I have not branded them or experimented much with colour. This Arbutus piece is 12" diameter X 5" the branding was dyed with India ink then the...
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2nd platter in my ink color phase. 10 inch by 2.
Removed bead. Upgraded to full color. I'm happier with this look. View this media item
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Red Beanie Snowman
This little guy is inspired from the latest FUNdamentals article on making inside out snowmen written by John Lucas here on the Forum. I started with a 7/8" board and cut it into three 4.5" sections...
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Santa
Santa made from ash and maple stained with stain pens and sprayed lacquer View this media item
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Square burl platter
I've had this piece of burl that was this shape for years. The other day it told me what it wanted to be. It had some areas that were not as interesting as the burl so I turned details into it. Turned...
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Walnut and Maple hollow form-box
Maple finial with Walnut hollow form. 8 inch total height. Box is 3 1/2 high by 3 inch wide. Mylands friction polish on the Maple finial and Tung oil on the Walnut. View this media item
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Another wood shavings ornament
Another ornament made from the wood shavings from Forster bit made by my wife and her first finial View this media item
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Banksia nut pod
Hollowed out from the top and body and finial turned in 1 piece View this media item
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Face bowl
Arizona Cyprus 14” x 2” cracks filled with epoxy/coffee. Home made food safe finish. View this media item
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Basket Illusion Salt & Pepper
This set of Basket Illusion Salt & Pepper Grinders are made with Hard Maple and measure approximately 7" tall x 2.5" diameter. I intentional made the shape of the Salt Grinder slightly...
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Walnut crotch bowl
Bowl is 12” x 2 3/4” with feather figure from crotch portion of the tree. This is the last of the pieces that were given to me by an arborist friend last year. View this media item
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Beads of Courage Cupcake Box
Beads of Courage Cupcake with Cherry on Top! This piece is made with various woods: Catalpa (base), Mahogany (lid/cake section), Sugar Pine (icing), Hard Maple & Walnut (cherry and stem). I used...
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Segmented Top
15 rings with 48 segments each. Walnut top handle, angico cord handle, cherry spinning plate, maple, perumboco and what I thought was purple heart but id just a great dark brown for the top. Top is...
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"The Guardians of the Truth."
A double lidded, double box.....Birch, Maple, Contorted Filbert. Another piece where I struggle to find the finish line and the words.......... 7-1/2" x 6" x 5-1/2" Thank you for looking! View this...
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In Balance
Cherry, Avodire, Chatke Viga, Granadillo and Leopardwood. 9.5"D; 5.25" H View this media item
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NIP bowl
13 1/4 inch diameter and 2 1/2 inch height. Cracks and small divots filled with copper and CA, PTO finish. Wall about 1/8 inch thick, turned wet so some warping. Pith needed no stabilization. First...
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Cosmic cloud I
My first cosmic cloud for a friend who is retiring from church position. The cherry came from his land. 11 3/4 inch. Finish is lacquer. View this media item
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Walnut, white oak w/ cove bead lip
Walnut and white oak, lip has a cove bead on outside. 7.5" Dia, 3" tall. Tung oil and wax finish. View this media item
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Walnut, maple, pine urn
This is an old Pic. Made this in 2011 for one of my best friends, unfortunately. This was the first urn I'd ever made. Robbi was a great guy and the absolute best fishing buddy you could ask for. He...
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Upated Harvest Bowl - Back View
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Hazy Spiral
Waves of color, a hazy spiral galaxy on a trio of turned disc. View this media item
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Persimmon Vase
Persimmon Tree Vase, 2023 Persimmon tree 12"h x 6"w x 6"d Finish Lacque before View this media item
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Bewdy Burl
This oblong Coolibah Burl was better suited as an elliptical turning than a mill blank so my wife Alison suggested I turn the burl chunk on the Oval Device. Finished with Yorkshire Grit and wax. The...
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"A Restless World"
I got to thinking one day (I know! Watch out!) "What if, through some curious twist of plate tectonics the Salisbury Plain of England were located instead in warm, wet sub-Saharan Africa?...
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Latest Charity Donation (Inside)
The bowl is 11” W X 8.5” H and is made of 36 layers of 96 segments per layer for a total of 3456 segments. It is made of Canary, Chakta Vika, Cherry, Peruvian Walnut and Satine. ON TO THE NEXT CHARITY...
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Latest Charity Donation (Outside)
The bowl is 11” W X 8.5” H and is made of 36 layers of 96 segments per layer for a total of 3456 segments. It is made of Canary, Chakta Vika, Cherry, Peruvian Walnut and Satine. ON TO THE NEXT CHARITY...
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Mardi Gras
"Mardi Gras" 13.5"h x 10.5"w x 2.5"d. Turned, carved, acrylic paint. View this media item
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She-oak Bowl with eggs
She-oak or Casuarina Bowl with hand turned eggs of various species. The Tiger Myrtle (from Tasmania) is particularly noticeable. I have just made a video about turning a batch of eggs. Some people may...
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Southern Maple bowl
A simple southern maple bowl, nothing special about the wood. Experimenting with shapes and testing out some new-to-me chisel grinds. Maple is fun to turn. 8.5" diameter and 1.75" tall. So, arguably...
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Pecan natural crotch
Had a pecan branch crotch I split in two. Hollowed it a bit and sanded it up. Light coat of oil and laquer. View this media item
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Matched Pair
Pair of end tables made from oak with usmc black dye. Finished with three coats of water white clear catylized conversion varnish dull rubbed effect. View this media item
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Matched Pair Top
Top view of the two end tables showing how the open grain of the oak shows. View this media item
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Canarywood bowl
Double beaded foot with a 3/32 raised area underneath for a shadow line. Finished with Shellac and Mylars friction polish. 3 in. round by 2 in. high. Love the grain pattern and colors in this one!...
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A Grief Observed
Spalted Mango heart on ebonized Black Cherry stand. 6.5"h x 6"w x 3.5"d. I made this piece for a swap on another forum. My swap partner suffered a tragedy recently, so I created this to represent the...
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Camatillo Capsule Box
This capsule box turned from Camatillo, also know as Mexican Kingwood has a very polished feel and it has a nice Rosewood smell. A true dalbergia species is has very tight growth rings, a dark royal...
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Tangential box iteration
Tangential Box~Cherry, Walnut, and Maple. 4 3/8" diameter, 4" H to the top of the finial. I really enjoy making these boxes and have continued to refine the form with each iteration. View this media...
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Other half of the pecan crotch
As the title says, and this half has the added bonus of a twig emerging. I found a bit of spalting on one branch too. One thing I did different was to put a bit of uplift around the bottom perimeter....
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AAW WIT WIG stands
In January I will be leading a hands-on class for Minnesota Woodturners to make WIG stands. These will part of our chapters Community Service initiative. Read the current WIT newsletter online at...
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Sycamore Globe- Candle holder
A chunk of sycamore that I turned into a sphere, and then drilled a shallow hole for the candle. About 6 inch diameter, finished with Osmo polyx. View this media item
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Cedar coasters
Part of the order of 52 cedar coasters I made for Christmas gifts for a friend. The bottoms are complete. The tops are waiting for adding his company logo with my laser. Was taking 14 minutes each to...
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Fibonacci Spiral
This is my SWT chapter holiday swap piece that I sent to Don Coleman. It was inspired by Keith Tomkins "spiral" which featured on the back page of the AAW journal in August. His was steam bent out of...
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Oak Burl with turquoise
Small oak burl with turquoise inlay. Starbond multi coat finish. View this media item
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Ash bowl
Tried to do a live edge out of a piece of Ash crotch wood. Unfortunately the two pieces never grew together. No nice grain pattern inside just bark. Lost some of the bark while turning. It was ready...
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