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A segmented Vase made from over 180 seperate pieces of Oak, Maple, Purpleheart, Mahagony, Cypress, and Walnut.
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My very first attempt at a bowl!... and it ended up being a cup :)
I used a tiny Ryobi lathe and an old Sears Craftsman scraper and attacked!
This was before I added the stem and base....
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My 15 year old daughter Amanda came home with a GOOD note from a teacher! After I recovered from the shock, I turned a Maple frame for the note to commerate this historic occasion. A plexiglass circle is inset in the recessed face.
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A turned plate made with Cypress and Purpleheart.
6 1/2" diameter
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Spalted Oak Turning....
5 1/2" wide and 4" tall
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Polka Dot Bowl!
Cypress, Maple top and bottom, with Walnut
"polka dots" inlaid.
6 1/2" wide, 6" tall.
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Spalted Oak Bowl
6 1/2" wide, 4" tall
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And yet another spalted Oak Bowl!
6" X 6"
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Segmented Bowl
Cypress and Oak
6" X 5 1/2"
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My FIRST bowl turned from a chunk of a log!
Spalted Oak, and a couple of worm holes :)
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Vase from Cypress segments...
8" high, 5" at the top.
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This was my second
(I think?)
turning where I tried a face turning for the first time...
Since it didn't blow up, I turned a spindle and a base and called it a Candy Dish!
(yea, like that's what I meant it to be :) )
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Here's my very first Natural Edge bowl turned from a chuck of a Pear tree a neighbor had chopped down. It's 7" wide, 8" tall.
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Here's another Bowl from that same Pear tree...
6" high, 5 1/2" tall
Here's the bottom :)
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Pear bowl...
I call this my DEVO bowl, for those that remember that uhh.. "singing" group from the 70's...
6 1/2" high, 8" diameter
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Natural edged bowl...
Spalted Oak
3 3/4" high, 6" at widest point
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More spalted oak....
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and even more spalted oak!
I had a log, and I'm just about through with it :)
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Cypress and PurpleHeart, Oak bottom.
12 sided rings...
Chucked using a recessed tenon...
8 1/2" H X 5 1/4" around the middle..
Next time I do something similar to this, I'm going to make the bottom part a lot smaller in diameter... This looks kinda "klunky" to me...
Turn and Learn!
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Oak Natural Edged bowl
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...and another....
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Pear Bowl...
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Oak bowl...
measures 5 1/2" X 6 1/8"
Finished with Briwax....
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My first attempt at turning a box.
I don't know what the wood is... I got it from a chunk that was in a local lumber mill's scrap pile. It was made by cutting 2 circles from a 12/4 s4s chunk of wood.
Finished with Briwax
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Open view....
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Mystery wood... The log had a chainlink fence running through it, but I was able to get a couple chunks... This one wasn't really dry enough, but now I know about how long to let this wood dry....
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8" X 8" Large, round oak bowl...
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From same chunk of the log as above large bowl...
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Spalted Oak
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Pear
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