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. 

Spalted Maple Pot

 

Here's a nice spalted Maple pot measuring 5 inches in diameter and 4.25 inches high. I added a blue accent line just below the rim on the outside of the pot. 

view of interior from above

Tiny Box with Bone Finial

 

Here's a Mahogany box measuring one inch in diameter and about 1.5 inches high. I made the finial out of a piece of hog bone turned on the lathe. Friction-fitted lid.

9.5 Inch Spalted Maple Bowl

 Spalted Maple, 9.5 inch diameter, 4 inches deep. Wet sanded up to 320 grit, with mineral oil. Finished with boiled linseed oil, which turned it an amber color.

8.5 Inch Spalted Maple Bowl

 Spalted Maple, 8.5 inches diameter, 1.75 inches deep. The wide brim is slightly dished. Wet sanded up to 320 grit, with mineral oil. Finished with Danish Oil. I've got to use up this spalted Maple before it goes bad. Spalting is caused by a fungus at the beginning stages of decomposition (rot). Once the wood's completely dried the rotting process is halted.

8 Inch Maple Bowl

 This is an 8 inch diameter, 1.5 inch high spalted Maple bowl. Wet sanded with mineral oil up to 320 grit. Finished with Danish Oil. 

Bartlett Pear Wood Box

 Here's a Bartlett Pear wood box measuring 2 3/8 inch diameter and 4 inches high. The crack doesn't go all the way to the interior. Being centered on the side of the box, it looks like it belongs there. Lovely wood to turn. Subtle grain. A pleasure to work with. Friction-fit lid. A bit tricky doing knurling on a curved surface.

Spalted Maple Bowl

 Spalted Maple, 5.25 diameter, 1.75 inches high. This is a bowl shape I've been working with lately. Varying the width and/or height will get you a pleasing bowl shape. It's more stable than it looks.

Tiny Spalted Maple Bowl

 Spalted Maple, 2.75 inches diameter, nearly one inch high. No detailing. Just keeping my skills sharp.

Small Bartlett Pear Dish

 

Here's a small Bartlett Pear wood dish. It measures 5 inches in diameter by one inch high. 

A Pear Bowl

 This is a Bartlett Pear bowl measuring 6.5 in diameter and 2.5 inches high. There were a couple of small voids that needed filled. I used black CA glue to fill them. I like working with this wood. Not much grain to it but it turns nicely and finishes beautifully.

Small Spalted Maple Bowl

 Another small spalted Maple bowl. This one measures 4.25 in diameter and 1.5 inches high. A relatively new shape I've been working with.

Small Spalted Maple Dish

 

This is a small spalted Maple dish measuring 4.75 inches in diameter by one inch high. 

Small Black Rimmed Spalted Maple Bowl

 

This is a spalted Maple bowl measuring 4.75 inches diameter by 1.5 inches high. I stained the edge of the rim with black stain to help hide the tear-out on this old piece of Maple. I should've made the rim edge thinner. It would look better, I think.

Small Spalted Maple Bowl #2

 This small spalted Maple bowl measures 3.5 in diameter by one inch high.