9 Inch Segmented Bowl

 

This is a 9 inch segmented ring bowl made with Maple and Mahogany woods. The base is solid Mahogany and the sides are stacked 12 segment rings of Teak and Maple. Maple is the lighter wood. This was wet sanded with mineral oil and finished with boiled linseed oil. This will be a surprise birthday gift for one of my friends. 

Update: Made Lid For Segmented Canister

 

 I made a lid for the canister shown in the last post. The lid is Mahogany with a silvered blue marble knob. 

A Small Segmented Canister

 

Here's a small segmented ring canister measuring 3 inches high and 1.75 inches in diameter. Woods  used are (top to bottom) Walnut, Maple, Teak, Pine, Teak, Maple, Walnut, Mahogany. Each layer is a 6 segment ring. Finished with linseed oil and high speed wax. 

Mahogany Gift Box

 

Here's a small box I made for my sister's birthday. It about 5 inches square and almost 2 inches tall. Made from two kinds of Mahogany. Finger joint corners. Green flocking on inside bottom.  No hardware. Boiled linseed oil finish. 

A Maple Pot

Here's a Maple pot, 5 inches in diameter and 4 inches high turned from a nice piece of clear Silver Maple which has a bit of "fiddle-back" ripples in it. I made one similar to this one a little while back. This was wet sanded with mineral oil up to 600 grit. It feels like satin to touch.

9 Inch Segmented Bowl

Here's a nine inch diameter, 3.5 inch high segmented bowl. The base is a solid 3/4 inch thick slab of Mahogany on top of which is (from bottom to top) Teak, Maple and Mahogany. Teak is extremely hard wood. Not fun to turn. Mahogany and Maple are nicer to work with. The rings that make up the sides of the bowl are 12 segments each. This was wet sanded, as usual, with mineral oil. I've been using the mineral oil in the sanding stage for some time now. Sandpaper makes fine dust, and fine sandpaper makes super fine dust. Even if you wear the best respiratory gear, your shop becomes covered in this super fine dust and you'll be breathing it for years. The mineral oil eliminates the dust problem, - and without the loud vacuum dust collection system. The oil is not a problem as long as I'm not using a water based finish over it. I'm not really pleased with the color combination here. It's just not good looking. Not ugly, just boring.

Heavily Spalted Maple Bowl.

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Here I've turned this heavily spalted block of Maple into this amazing looking bowl. In this photo you can see the very center of the log and the concentric growth rings. For newbies, "spalting" is the beginning stage of wood rot, as fungi stake out claims inside the dead wood. The black lines are the perimeter of their colonies. The fungi also color the wood and can produce fade resistant colors in many shades. This wood was from a big Silver Maple we had cut down. I saved a section of that tree for 6 or 7 years before cutting into it. I got to it just in time because it was starting to get soft. I've gotten many nice pieces of wood from that chunk of tree.
This bowl measures 5.5 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches high. It was wet sanded with mineral oil then a coat of boiled linseed oil was applied.