Small Spalted Maple Bowl

This is a small spalted Maple bowl. The dimensions are 4 inches in diameter and 1.75 inches high. It was wet sanded with mineral oil. The finish feels like satin. No tear-out in the spalted areas this time. I'm getting better at this with each new bowl I turn.

Small Maple Bowl

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Here's a small Maple wood bowl from a nice piece of wood from my own back yard. This bowl measures 4 inches in diameter, 1.25 inches high. Wet sanded with oil to 320 grit. Finish is mineral oil only.

Maple Wood Box

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It's nice that I have so much wood literally falling into my yard. I have a pile of this Maple wood from a big tree that we had removed. This piece of wood has some fiddle-back grain, a little bit of Birds-Eye grain, and otherwise nice clean grain. Beautiful piece of wood. The box is 6 inches in diameter, 3 inches high (4, with the knob). Loose-fitting lid. Wet sanded with oil to 400 grit. The finish is mineral oil only. Feels like satin.

Scrap wood segmented bowl

Here's a scrap wood segmented bowl I turned today. It measures 3 inches high and 6.75 inches in diameter. The woods, top to bottom are: mahogany fine plywood, next a layer of alternating walnut and pine segments, then a layer of pine, then a layer of mahogany plywood, another layer of pine and the base is a different kind of mahogany. It was wet sanded up to 320 grit, given a coat of linseed oil, the a high speed wax coat to finish. This was essentially a practice bowl, making segments, and practice my turning technique. I'll gift this to one of my friends.

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A lid for the bowl makes it a box

. . . and so I made a lid for the spalted Maple bowl. And so that makes it a box. I found another piece of that same spalted Maple just big enough to make this lid. Also, from a small piece of spalted Apple wood I turned a knob for the lid. I'm posting more photos below.

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Spalted Maple Bowl

This is a small spalted Maple wood bowl which measures 4 inches in diameter and 3 inches high. The spalting on this is pretty wild. Once this was oiled, the depth in the coloration is amazing. This was wet sanded with mineral oil, then oiled with boiled linseed oil, then lightly hand rubbed waxed. The finish on this looks and feels like satin. Though this was heavily spalted, I managed to achieve very little tear-out of the wood fibers by turning at a very high speed and using a very light touch at the final stages before sanding. This one came out very well indeed . . . so I'm posting several photos.

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Small Apple Wood Bowl

This is a small bowl made from spalted Apple wood. It measures 4 inches in diameter and 1.25 inches high. Wet sanded with mineral oil. Oiled with boiled linseed oil, polished on the lathe with wood shavings, then hand rubbed wax.

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