Here’s a small Ash vase that I recently turned. It is about 5″ tall, 3 1/2″ in diameter at its widest and an 1 3/4″ at its base. The grain has been accentuated with the red of the Tripoli powder from the Beall Buffing System getting into the pores of the wood. I was concerned […]
Here’s a hollow vessel that I recently finished that sports some burned arrow-like embellishments. The vessel is made out of Maple and is about 5 1/2″ tall, 3 1/2″ at it’s widest and 2 1/2″ at it’s base. It was finished with the Beall Buff System. The burned rings were done using wire on the […]
Here’s a small hollow vase that I turned recently. It is 5 3/4″ tall 3″ at widest to 1 3/4 at base and made of Maple. I refer to the Maple used in this project as ‘Old Man Maple’ because the tree that the wood came from used to reside behind my mother-in-laws home and […]
Here was a fun project. I moved some wood around and found several small Birch logs and threw them under the bench that the lathe sits on. One piece bounced back out and I took this as a sign that it wasn’t happy just laying around and wanted to be turned. So I put it […]
What a surprise! A spalted Maple vase! In the last post I mentioned that I turned a hollowed vessel using the Rolly Munro Articulated Hollower so I guess that I should tell you a bit more about the turning. š This piece was turned as a traditional shaped vase and is made of Spalted Maple. […]
Here’s a hollow vessel that, because of it’s flat shape, I’m calling a ‘Squat Pot’. š The base is made of Birch and the ‘lip’, or spout, is made of Walnut. It measures 7.5″ in diameter and without the ‘lip’ is only 1.5″ tall. It stands, or rather sits, 2.5″ with the ‘lip’. This was […]