Custom Wood Bowls and Other Turnings

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Silver Maple

Silver Maple

Beautiful heartwood and sapwood, plus the natural bark edge.

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Figured Maple

Figured Maple

10″ shallow bowl. The grain shimmers as you turn the bowl.

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Padauk

Padauk

Beautiful, brightly striated grain.


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Double Dogwood

Double Dogwood


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Red Oak

Red Oak


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Don’t Be Such a Square.

Don't Be Such a Square.


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Spalted Beech

Spalted Beech


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Cedar

Cedar

Reclaimed cedar from an old bay window frame. Nail holes visible. Wonderful, crazy whirlwind grain. I love
God’s creativity hidden in wood.


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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Mahogany Christmas tree ornament.


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Dogwood

Dogwood

End-grain bowl with natural bark intact.


Sassafras

Sassafras


Walnut

Walnut

Sapwood and heartwood.


Butternut Hickory Matching Bowls with Natural Edge

Butternut Hickory Matching Bowls with Natural Edge


Cherry Vase

Cherry Vase

Cherry darkens over time. This vase is now a deep dark cherry.


Red Oak

Red Oak


Shagbark Hickory

Shagbark Hickory


Black Walnut

Black Walnut


Cherry plate

Cherry plate

Sapwood and heartwood.


Cherry

Cherry

10″ heavy bowl. I kept some of the distressed wood in the design.


Tomboti

Tomboti

6″ bowl of Tomboti, a wood from southern Africa. A very waxy, soft-sheen wood which coated my turning tools and clogged up the sandpaper. After finishing it, I read about the wood—turns out the fresh latex-like sap is poisonous. Yikes! Probably the last tomboti wood I turn…


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Pau Ferro

Pau Ferro


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Bubinga and Walnut

Vase of bubinga, with a walnut base.


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Maple

Maple

Small maple bowl. A gift to a friend of 40+ years.


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Oregon Myrtle

Oregon Myrtle

Matching plate and bowl of Oregon Myrtle.