White Ash
$75
White Ash
White Ash candlesticks, from a tree that my son chopped down several years ago. Striking grain, but really difficult to turn.
English Walnut
10-inch plate of English Walnut, a soft and beautiful wood. This piece has a stunning bit of dark heartwood on display.
Spalted Sycamore
A gift to our dear friends Jack and Annie Dorsey. www.jackdorseyart.com https://sunnyshorestudio.wordpress.com/meet-the-family-of-artists/
Oregon Myrtle
Lots of wonderful color and movement in this piece of Oregon myrtle. Plenty of worm holes too. Plus there’s a nice scene on the bottom of the sunset over Mount Shasta.
Bloodwood
A little goblet—more like a champagne flute—made of bloodwood. No stain on this: that’s the natural color of the wood. Beautiful.
Mystery Wood
Actually, not much of a mystery—it’s nothing more than pine. But I painted it black and then removed much of the color; the hard and soft alternating grain accepts the paint differently, creating a striking contrast. I left extra wood at the bottom, making it fairly heavy which also lends itself to being some sort of exotic wood. Nope; just ol’ pine.
A little tiny project—a toothpick holder. Lots of color in this piece.
Maple Burl
I love the crazy nature of the grain in this piece of maple burl.
Maple
Sugar Maple, complete with little worm holes. The worms are long gone.
Spalted Maple
I found a pepper shaker at my son’s house, so I made a matching salt shaker out of contrasting spalted maple. The black lines are a result of fungus attacking the wood.
Hawthorn
Hawthorn has lovely distinctive grain, making it very colorful.
Cherry
Cherry bowl, with s small bit of discoloration front and center. Cherry tends to darken over time if left in the sunlight, so this will probably have a much darker tone later.
Cherry
Large (10.5″ x 5″) bowl of cherry, turned end-grain. The pressures on an end-grain piece often make it split; this one certainly did, which I filled with epoxy, so you can still see it.
Spalted Sycamore
Fungus attacked this chuck of wood and left some crazy variegated colors.
Bitternut Hickory Burl
Well, that was difficult. This is probably the nastiest piece of wood I’ve ever turned. But even it got redeemed.
Sold.
Construction debris
A little scrap of 2×6 I found floating in our lake. I like the different textures.
White Ash
14″ plate of ash. This is called “guitar ash,” as it’s often used for solidbody guitars. Lots of big, open grain with differing degrees of hardness. The scientific name is fraxinus, which is a very fun word to say.
$75
Sugar Maple
8″ bowl of sugar maple. This is filled with worm holes; it definitely won’t hold water!
$45
Cherry
Cherry 8″ bowl with natural edge. A different style than I normally create, but based on the shape of the original chunk of wood.$85.00
Manzanita
Small manzanita root ball I picked up near Mt. Shasta, California. Natural edge, lots of cracks and faults, and stunning blood-red color.
Oregon Myrtle
Oregon myrtle. Beautiful, variegated wood that is a joy to turn; and it has a beautiful scent as well when it’s turned. The tree only grows on the West Coast. In Oregon, it’s Oregon myrtle; in Califormia it’s called California laurel. So I guess it depends on where you live.
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