Category: Turnings 2012

 

Another Beauty!

Another in the series of Box Elder. I still look forward to the next opportunity to find this type of wood.

A nice small dish made from the same wonderful Box Elder. I love how the color, grain and fiddle back play on the surface.

Just another nice smaller tray or shallow bowl from my neighbors favorite Maple tree.

Just a nice small vase from the same Box Elder Tree. I believe this one became a wedding present.

Another Box Elder bowl that now resides in Minnesota. Box Elder is actually in the Maple family and the coloration is due to disease.

Well, it happens, hopefully not to often, but whatever the cause, bowls can break. So what do you do?

Well this is what happened to Bowl 292. Actually I was happy to see it back. I didn’t like how it was originally finished with some water based varnish I was working with at the time. So I sanded it down to the wood, stained the cut in lines, rounded out the area where a piece had broken off.

But now that the bowl would have a new personality and purpose I had to go a step further. I had only attempted to do a spoon once before and they are not that difficult except digging out the bowl area of the spoon. Any way Bowl 292 is now perfect for serving that Guacamole or Salsa….Ole!

Gosh, a New Year!

Just before Christmas the city was doing some work on the road in front of my community and one day I saw a crew cutting trees, primarily Bradford Pear. Of course I stopped and asked if I could have one of the trunks. Well they even helped me load it into my car.

 

I was able to get 4 very nice bowls out the wood and while turning I saw this wood had different coloration than I had found in Bradford Pear. Not sure why that was, perhaps from auto emissions or perhaps just the ground, anyway they turned out quite different.

While shopping with my wife I got a call from William and Ann seeing if I had any bowls available. I told him I did but they were drying in sawdust at the moment. Later they came by, liked what they saw, were disappointed that they would not be dried and finished in time for Christmas but decided to purchase them anyway. They took many pictures of them that I am sure were gift wrapped and given as Christmas presents to the family.

I do hope you will all love and enjoy them through the coming years!

Could it be a Space Shuttle heading to the Moon?