A Walnut Wood Bowl

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This is a small (2" high X 3.25" wide) Walnut wood bowl. This stuff is a real pleasure to turn and finishes like a dream. I made the bowl blank from scraps of walnut that were too small for much else. I could've made some knobs or finials but didn't need either of those.

A Redwood Box

Here's a nice little recycled redwood box 4 inches high and 6 inches square. Finger joints at the vertical corners. Inlaid brass hinges and a magnetic "clasp", velvety green flocked lining.

Inlaid Celtic Knot on Canister

This canister is a little over 4 inches tall and 1.5 inches in diameter. The wood is Mahogany with Maple inlaid design. That inlaid design goes all the way through the wood. It can be seen on the inside of the container. A very cool and a bit tricky to glue up the wood blank in preparation for this. A bit of advanced wood turning.

Bandsaw Box #1

 

I just got an upgrade on my bandsaw. I went from a 9" benchtop saw to a nice big 16 inch stand-up model. I can cut much bigger stuff on this one. So I thought I'd make a bandsaw box with it. This box is roughly 6 inches long, 3.5 inches high and 3 inches thick, front to back. The front layer of wood is rosewood. The back layer is redwood and the rest is several layers of plywood. Not bad for my first attempt at this kind of box.

Spalted Maple Box with lid

I am really enjoying working with my lathe . . . when I can get my hands on some nice, free, wood. Here's another spalted Maple box. I made a bowl, and then decided to make a lid for it since I had a piece of spalted wood left, and I couldn't make a bowl out of it. Came out rather nice. The knob is rosewood, also turned on my lathe. This bowl is about 5.5 inches in diameter, and 5.5 inches high with the lid. Each bowl I make is slightly better than the last one.

Mobile' #60: the Trefoil Knot

If you've been following this blog you know that I've been working with this trefoil knot idea and exploring its possibilities as a sculpture idea. So it was inevitable that I'd attempt to make a mobile' with it. I wasn't sure how this would come out, or if I'd even be able to balance this thing. As you can see by the photo, I did make it, and it does work. It was my wife, Ellen's idea to use another trefoil knot as the base. . . brilliant! The wood is Douglas Fir,  the rods are 1/4 inch steel and the counter-weights are 8 oz. lead fishing weights. I'm quite intrigued by this shape. I'll be exploring it more.

Wood Turning: a small toy top

I turned a small toy top from a piece of Mahogany from my scrap box. It's 2.5 inches long and 1.75 inches wide. Just a little thing to get practice with my lathe tools.