Green-turned Iron Bark Eucalyptus Bowl

 

6 inch Green-turned Iron Bark Eucalyptus bowl. This photo was taken a day after the bowl was turned. Turned on the same day the tree was cut down. I was expecting this bowl to warp a lot. Here, it is just starting to raise the grain's bumpy texture.

This photo was taken one week later, the wood completely dry. The bowl is now 6 inches in diameter in one direction. 90 degrees to that measurement, it's 4 inches in diameter. The rim warping down and out in one direction and bending toward the inside of the bowl in another direction. The soft bumpy texture is much more dramatically warped. 
 

Eucalyptus Cup

 This is a 3.5 inch diameter by 3.5 inch high green-turned, vertical grain Iron Bark Eucalyptus cup. Very slight warping.

 

Wood turning from May 2025

 

6 inch diameter Maple bowl with a bit of bark inclusion on the outside.

Spalted Birch, 2.75 inch diameter, 4.5 inches high three legged vase

Spalted Birch, 3.25 inches diameter, 5.5 inches high, three legged vase.

Maple box, 3.5 inch diameter, six inches high. Madrone finial.

Green-turned Walnut wood, 2 inch diameter, 2 inches high.

Manzanita/Walnut Scoop

Manzanita handle, Walnut scoop, 4.5 inches long, 1.75 inches in diameter. Sanded up to 320 grit, dry-rubbed finish.
 

Wildly Warped Walnut

 Walnut, roughly 6 inches long, 1.75 inches high. This was very green Walnut wood and, as you can see, it's mostly sap wood which, on this wood, means it's going to warp like crazy. I do like this kind of thing. You never know what you're going to end up with. 

It's too wet to sand when freshly turned. Sandpaper just won't cut it; the fibers just lay down. Once the wood is try it can be sanded but, as in this case, it can be difficult to do. I sanded this one up to 320 grit and then use some fine steel wool. I finished it with a couple of applications of orange oil, then hand buffed.

Here it is with orange oil applied:

 

5 Inch Walnut Bowl

 Walnut, 5 inch diameter, 1.25 inches high. This was turned from very green Walnut. Slowly dried over a week. Hand-sanded up to 320, oiled with orange oil. Mild warping, still almost round, lovely tactile, dimensional grain, feels like satin, sits stable.

 

6 Inch Oak Bowl

 Oak, 6 inch diameter, 3 inches high. I got some nice pieces of this Oak. Some interesting figuring in the grain. This wood cuts and finishes nicely. Though somewhat green, this wood didn't warp much at all.

 

Oak Bowl

Oak, 4.5 inch diameter, 3 inches high. I got some nice oak logs that had been drying in the shade for some months. It was still a bit green. The walls of this bowl are a bit thick, so that now that it's dry, there's no warping. Only True Grit polish on this.

3 Inch Birch Pot

 Birch, 3 inch diameter, 4 inches tall. Green-turned. No warping No finish. 

 

Birch Bell Vase

 Birch, 3x3 inches. This was turned green and, when dried, almost no warpage. This is turned from vertical grain: running bottom to top in this photo. That odd bit of grain seen here is the heart-wood from a small branch growing out of this branch. No finish on this.

 

8 Inch Maple Platter

 Maple, 8 inch diameter by one inch high. Polished with True Grit. This wood is from near the heart of the tree, hence the odd grain. I was making a bowl but it was going to be too deep. So, I cut it down by an inch and a half with my parting tool, and made this platter from that cut-off.

 

7 Inch Maple Bowl

 Maple, 3 inches high, 7 inch diameter. Polished with True Grit. Working around defects in the wood and still coming up with a pleasing shape. 

A Twisted Little Thang

 I like to turn a piece of green wood when I encounter something I haven't worked with before. I recently acquired some fresh-cut Walnut wood, from a small tree. All but the center of the log is a soft light colored "sap wood". This wood is soft, high water content and not much grain. I know green wood is going to warp, but don't know how much. So, I took a small piece of that sap wood and turned this little cup. It had the shape of an upside-down Liberty Bell before it warped. Sorry I didn't take a "before" photo. So, here's what I ended up with. I sanded the base flat on a belt sander so it would be stable. Otherwise, I did nothing to it. 

7.5 Inch Maple Bowl

 Maple, 3 inches high, 7.5 inches in diameter. Lots of interesting stuff going on with the grain. Finished with True Grit. Trying out a different shape on this one. 

Trefoil Knot Rainbow

Yeah, I do something besides wood turning:

 Yet another in my Trefoil Knot series: Knotted Rainbow. Primary colors on the inside and secondary colors on the outside, each fading into the next. Roughly 3 inches high and 8 inches tip to tip. Cardboard, brush-painted with acrylics. I finally figured out the angles and where to put them to make this fold properly.

9 Inch Maple Bowl

 I've some Maple that's been slow-drying for a couple of years. No spalting! Nice grain in this bowl which has been polished with "True Grit" buffing compound. I love the look I get with this stuff.

 

Wooden Scoops

I've been making wooden kitchen utensils with my lathe as practice and learning new techniques, and it also uses pieces of wood too small to make much else out of.

  Here are some wooden scoops made on my lathe. The wood types are, left to right: Iron bark Eucalyptus, next two are Pear and the light colored one is Maple. These are small, 1.75 in diameter. No finish.