Category: Turnings 2011

Another well age piece of White Pine. I love how the age rings look on this type of bowl.

This vase is from a fallen tree I picked up in Feb. of this year. I learned of the wood from some friends of neighbors at a New Years Eve Party. I estimate that the wood was on the ground for about a year given the coloration and large numbers of segmented worms that are thrown from the wood during turning. Yes you can tell the difference between wood chips and worms when hitting your face.

This set of Leyland Cypress Nut Bowls again came from a neighbor and good friend. What can you say, I live in a very wooded neighborhood!

This is the first time I have had the opportunity to turn Sweet Gum and it does turn nice and the color is terrific. I was given this wood from a good friend in Alabama.

I live in a neighborhood that is now about 30 years old. Many Pears were planted when the community was new so they are now at the age they have begun to split. I love the wood as it is very dense, nice to turn has good activity during the drying process, and nice color. The only downsize is the sanding involved.

This grouping of good size nut bowls came from a neighbors yard. The tree was in the process of dying prior to be cut down and so already had begun very nice coloration.

This particular bowl was the Mac Daddy of all the bowls I have been able to produce from this collection of wood. It is about 17 inches in diameter and as large as I can turn across the bed of my lathe. This bowl is now part of the “Allison Collection”.

Another large bowl, perfect for holding fruit or just a center piece on a large table. Again from the office complex in Sandy Springs.

This is a very large Maple bowl about 15 inches in diameter. The maple came from a local office complex that was redesigning the parking lot. I was very thankful that they remembered me and allowed me to salvage as much wood as possible. The log that produced this bowl was on the ground for about 1.5 years before I started Turning it.

So this is the very first piece of Furniture I have done (not counting basic 2×4 outdoor benches). I cut the bench top from a Piece of Bradford pear trunk and sanded it smooth, not flat. I used 4 cherry limbs that were stripped of the bark and then sanded just smooth. After that I mounted each leg onto the lathe to round the bottoms and create peg that would set into the bench top and then wedged home with a piece of Paduck. This bench is a gift to my most cherrished friends on earth. I believe the bench will be right at home in North Carolina. Though this is the first there are now 3 more slabs of various wood waiting their turn to become furniture……..