This is one of about 8 bowls I have turned from some Mesquite a good friend brought back from Texas on a trip to visit his family. I really love this one as you can really see where the branch came out of the linb on this one.

This is another bowl produced from the Knoxville Walnut. To give you an idea it took two trips to get the sections of wood down to Atlanta and will probably produce about 14 bowls that are 12-13 inches in diameter.

I was most pleased with this maple tree from Roswell. It was very healthy when it came down and the wood was very clean. This bowl will make someone a wonderful salad bowl.

If there is a downside to Red maple its a grayish crust that forms on the wood during drying. I have seen this also on Bradford Pear, however the Pear is “easier” to remove, however in either case both take a long time to sand through to the clean wood.

Another of the bowls turned from the Knoxville Walnut. You can see insect damage on the inside of the bowl, left side. It looks like black dots.

The Walnut Wood came from my uncles home in Knoxville, TN. This bowl again was turned vertically and the pith is located in the bottom of this bowl. Because of the way it was turned the cambria (white wood) surrounds the main hardwood. When it was first turned fresh he white was really white but as it dried the darker tones set in and changed it completely.

For now this is my “Keeper” for the year.

This bowl is from a very old, very healthy Red Maple tree that was removed from a Condo in Roswell so that Plumbing and sewer issues could be addressed.

The bowl was turned vertically from the trunk, meaning that the pith is located on the bottom of the bowl and not eliminated from the top edge of the bowl.

Anyway its very white except for a bit of inner bark and some contrasting sawdust used to fill a crack that arrived during drying.

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”.