9.75 Inch Spalted Maple Bowl

 

Here's a 9.75 inch diameter by 2.75 inch high Spalted Maple Bowl made from crotch-wood (the place where two branches form a "Y"). Interesting grain happens at that place. The spalting isn't very heavy here but there's a lot of different colors present. Black CA glue was used as a fill on splits and voids. 

 

7.5 Inch Maple Crotch-Wood Bowl

 

This is the other half of the Maple crotch-wood I posted last week. Not so much splitting on this one. I burnished the bowl with its own shavings to give this bowl a nice semi-gloss sheen. That dark strip seen on the inside of the bowl is the bark that became embedded in the wood as the tree grew. The small cracks were filled with black CA glue.  

 

Warped Spalted Maple Bowl

 Here's the spalted Maple bowl I posted last week, showing how much this green-turned bowl warped in drying. Quite dramatic, but interesting looking. Rather boat-like.

Ironwood Cup #2

 

 

Ironwood Eucalyptus cup #2: a slightly different shape on the previous Ironwood cup. 3.5 inches diameter, 3 inches tall.

Ironwood Eucalyptus Cup

 

Ironwood Eucalyptus, 3.25 inches in diameter and 3 inches high. This wood is so beautiful, but super hard. The finish on this feels like satin. I cut pairs of grooves near the rim and the base. The sap wood on these trees is that dark brown and the interior wood is orange-to-red, and usually darkens as it ages. 

5 Inch Spalted Maple Bowl

 

Here's a 5 inch diameter bowl in spalted Maple. The black is almost blue in this one, and there are a couple other colors in the spalting as well. This was turned green so it'll warp as it dries and won't be round or level as that happens.

8 Inch Maple Bowl

 

This is a Maple crotch-wood bowl (Y-section of a log). There's a bark inclusion right down the middle of the bowl, and lots of crack, which I bonded with black CA glue. This wood was semi-green, only drying for about 6 months instead of the two years it should have dried. There's some warping starting, which will continue until the wood is dried. It's a fairly ugly looking bowl, though to some it may have a certain rustic charm. I've some other crotch wood I hope to have better luck with.