I love the crazy nature of the grain in this piece of maple burl.

Sugar Maple, complete with little worm holes. The worms are long gone.

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 has lovely distinctive grain, making it very colorful.

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.

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.

Fungus attacked this chuck of wood and left some crazy variegated colors.

Well, that was difficult. This is probably the nastiest piece of wood I’ve ever turned. But even it got redeemed.

Sold.

A little scrap of 2×6 I found floating in our lake. I like the different textures.

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.

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