This is about a 9 inch plate that has allot of Spalted characture.

I rarely do a lidded bowl as for the most part I turn green wood and they tend to go a little out of round during drying. In the case of this urn I was able to bring it back to round by re-turning it and then building a lid. As our dog Zulu is now 15 years and near her end, I have decided this will be her resting place after cremation. I hope she finds this an acceptable.

Again, a neighbor was cleaning up their yard and installing a stone walkway so this messy old oak had to go. This was the worst smelling wood I have ever had the opportunity to get involved with. Its smell permeated my sense of smell for days. I did however grow to love the grains and put up with the smell. Unlike allot of Oak, I would turn this again. About 11 inches wide by 5 deep.

This came from a dying Plum Tree from a friends neighbors home in Carterville, GA. I call this the Tulip Bowl. Each Petal of the Tulip is actually a limb coming out of the top of what was the tree;s trunk. The dark edges are actually cambria and bark. Notice the natural bark edge of this bowl. Aprrocimately 8×8 inches.

This wood was found along the roadside in Forsyth County after the power company cleared overhead lines. Given the wonderful coloring you can tell it was nearing death from beetle. Beetles are really wonderful artists. This bowl is about 11 wide by 7 inches tall.

Another vase of Mimossa, this one turned up the trunk so that the pith is on either side. From this view (better in real life) it appears as if the bowl has a river running between two mountains. About 10 inches wide by 13 inches tall.

This vase was turned with the pith in the bottom of the vase and also retains some of the Cambria (inner Bark) the lighter wood and also some bark inclusions. It came from near the top of the trunk as when you look inside the vase you can see 4 or 5 limbs areas. Approximately 6×6 inches.

This wood came from a neighbors yard. In fact this neighbor has been great in making sure I had some nice piece of wood last year including some very large Bradford Pear.

This bowl is about 4 inches wide and 6 inches tall. I thought the color was very muted and decided to highlight the inside giving it a smooth gloss finish inside and a textured muted finish on the outside. For some unknown reason I feel it has a very Spanish feel and look to it.

So I learned that what is basically a trash tree was being removed from the edge of the pond behind my house. I got the tree crew to leave a few of the bigger logs.

This is an end cut where you find the pith in the center of the bowl rather than not found at all or sometimes on the side of the bowl. I think it almost looks like a kidney.

About 11 inches wide and only a couple of inches deep.