Eucalyptus Wood Bowl

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This is a red bark (Iron Wood) Eucalyptus wood bowl from a tree in my backyard. It's aged wood (5 yrs) and had wood boring beetles in the wood, leaving holes in it. This is very hard wood. After turning the bowl, I filled the holes with clear epoxy with gold pearl powder mixed into it. You can see them in the yellow elliptical spots on the sides. The bowl measures 6 inches in diameter by 2 inches high. It was wet sanded with mineral oil up to 400 grit sand paper, then burnished with its own wood shavings to a semi-gloss luster. I'm pretty happy with how this came out.

Live Edge Sycamore Wood Bowl

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This is a Sycamore wood bowl with some of the bark left on. From a green (wet wood) whole section of a large branch. It measures 5 inches in diameter by 2.5 inches high. Wet sanded with mineral oil, and finished with mineral oil. This wood was turned slightly off center which is why one side of the bowl has a dip in the edge.

Maple Wood Bowl

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Here's a Maple wood bowl I turned this week end. It measures 6.5 inches in diameter and 2.5 inches high. As are most of the bowls I turn, the wood for this came from trees in my own back yard. This wood was from a Silver Maple tree. The bowl was wet sanded with mineral oil and then finished with a high-speed wax for a gloss finish. I'm not a big fan of high gloss finishes on my bowls, but I wanted to see what this would look like on this Maple. Not bad. Some cracking developed as I turned the walls thinner and thinner. I managed to keep the cracks from spreading by using CA glue (Super Glue) to secure them.

Pear Wood Canister 3

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Here's a Pear wood canister I made a few days ago. This one is 3 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall, with an amber colored glass marble topping off the knob on the lid. There's a walnut wood liner on the inside of the lid, put there to make the lid fit tighter. I finished the outside of the canister with fluted rings for a decorative effect. This canister was wet sanded with mineral oil and burnished with its own wood shavings.

Mulberry Burl Bowl Update

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As I said in the initial post for this piece, I turned it while the wood was still green which made for a lot of warping of the wood. Dramatically so, as you can see in these photos. I did further work on the Mulberry bowl by filling in the voids and cracks with pigmented epoxy. I mixed gold powder (powdered gold colored mica) and poured it into the voids and cracks, over-filling the spaces so I could file it down to the level of the wood surface. I'm a little surprised at how well it worked . I also sanded and polished the wood which looks pretty good, considering.

Pear Wood Canister 2

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Eucalyptus Wood Bowl

Here's a Eucalyptus wood bowl I made yesterday. It measures 6 inches in diameter and 2.75 inches high. This is wood from a tree in my backyard. It was cut from a fallen branch a year ago and left to dry. When dry this wood is very hard. I had to sharpen my chisels 4 times while turning this bowl (usually once will do). It's beautiful wood and finishes nice though. There are a couple of small "checks" (cracks) in the wood from drying. I'm thinking of filling them with a gold colored fill . . . maybe. This was wet sanded with mineral oil, which I've been doing on a regular basis now because it eliminates a great deal of super-fine wood dust. I followed that with a coat of boiled linseed oil, then burnished it at a high speed with its own wood shavings.