Pear Wood Box

 

Here's a Pear wood box measuring 3.5 inches in diameter and 4 inches high. Wet sanded up to 320 grit and finished with mineral oil and bees wax. I love working with this wood; so nice to turn, though not much figuring in the grain. I used my Sorby texturing tool on the lid.

9" Spalted Maple Bowl #2

 Here's another spalted Maple bowl. It measures 9 inches in diameter and 2.5 inches high. There's double groove just below the outer rim. This was wet sanded up to 320 grit and finished with natural Danish Oil. Nice spalting, not too heavy, with the chatoyance still visible through the spalting. "Chatoyance" is the shimmering grain effect one sees in some woods.

9" Spalted Maple Bowl

 This is a 9 inch diameter spalted Maple bowl, 2.5 inches high. There's a bead on the outer rim and a bit of a foot on the base. Nice spalting here with the chatoyance still visible behind the spalting. Wet sanded up to 320 grit and finished with natural Danish Oil.

Small Plum Wood Dish

 This is a Plum wood dish measuring 3.25 inches in diameter and one inch high. Scalloped sides. The shrinkage split was filled with A+B epoxy putty originally, but as I turned this on the lathe bubbles and voids inside the fill were exposed, which I filled with black CA glue. Now that fill looks like some kind of stone. Very hard wood which dulled my tools within minutes. Wet sanded to 320 grit and finished with Danish Oil. 

Small Natural Edge Plum Dish

 This was a slice of a Plum tree branch I've had laying in a scrap bin for years. I thought I'd try to turn something out of it. The wood had already split very badly with some additional checking around the pith. That pretty much rendered this wood as useless, but I went ahead and filled the big splits with very hard A+B epoxy putty (the tan colored fill). I thought I'd leave the outside alone and just cut a shallow bowl in the center of it. During the turning some voids were exposed inside the epoxy fill. I filled those and the checks around the pith with black CA glue, and kept turning. This wood was extremely hard, dulling my tools within minutes. The view shown above is the dish turned on its side, looking like a piece of sculpture. I put a coat of Danish Oil as a finish. This thing is about 3.75 inches in diameter.

Small Square Dish

 This is a small square Pear wood dish. It measures 4.25 inches in diameter (3.5 inches square) and just a bit over 1 inch high. There's a small foot about 3/16 inches high that makes the dish appear to float. This was a wood turning experiment that didn't turn out the way I expected, ending up with what you see here. Too good to just throw it away. There's a little bit of bark left on the under side of this dish, making that concentric stripey thing.

Iron Bark Eucalyptus Bowl

 This is an Iron Bark Eucalyptus bowl measuring 4.5 inches in diameter and 1.75 inches high. This wood is very hard when it's dried. It's hell on tools. Finishes nicely and has beautiful colors. Wet sanded with mineral oil up to 320 grit, then finished with a couple of coats of Danish Oil.