Category: Turnings 2009

White Pine is one of few Pines you want to turn. Then you only want to turn where the tree puts out limbs, which it does 360 degrees around the tree. They are also great to turn as everything smells like Pine!

I make these multi-function wine stoppers out of various woods. Not only will the work as a wine stopper but will also serve for a quick taste of wine or port. They make very nice Hostess Gifts.

The Red bowl in the fore ground was dyed red and black. The carving was drawn on and then burned into the wood. The bowl, back right, had the grooves carved into the bowl while it was on the lathe and then, using copper wire the grooves were burned. The bowl, back left, was hand carved and then stained. Thy stand alone well but are great as a grouping.

The numbering on this bowl is off as somehow it was not signed and dated upon completion. This “Calabash” style is one of my favorites. Of all the Oaks I believe this is the stinky-est of All when turning. It is very sour and I will normally take a couple of Tums prior to tuning green oak.

This along with #350 was sold to the same person. I consider this to be one of my favorites for 2009. It resides just down the road a piece and I need to contact the owner and find out the number of this bow. Anyway the spalting is outstanding.

This bowl came from a dying tree that was located in an office complex in Dunwoody. This was a massive project that took along time to complete. It was large and had a small opening. Worse of all it kept removing itself from the lathe and I had to continually reinforce it. This was also the last project of the year and just in time to dry enough to be purchased for a Christmas Present. This project was a fitting end to a year of tremendous growth for me as a turner.

This is a bowl that has a great story behind it….

I was approached by a guy that heard I was interested in finding fallen trees. Well it turn out He had two very old Oaks fall over in his back yard during the storm of April 2009. He saved me a bunch of piece from the very base of on 200 year old Oak. I turned about 6 bowls for him to give away as Christmas gifts to friends and family.

Being wood from the base, it had been around a long time and had collected all sorts of stone, dirt and other stuff. This, growth and age performed wonders on the grain.

Here again is another piece of Tulip Poplar that was allowed to rest a bit and have Mother nature do her artwork before I did mine. Origionally purchased as a wedding gift my friend and very first Patron decided to keep it and purchase something else for the wedding couple. This bowl still resides in the neighborhood and is known as “The Keeper”.

A very good friend of mine heard a fellow employee was removing this tree from his yard. He was able to obtain ome very nice pieces of the trunk. Tulip Poplar is not the most exciting wood until you let Mother Nature have a bit of time before you turn the bowl.

This bowl too came from the neighborhood and is the very top of the trunk where the first branches breakout. To date it is one of the tallest I have created. One of my best customers at the Farmers Market purchased it for her sister for a Christmas Gift. The bowl now resides in Wisconsin. Now that is a nice Sister!