Pear and Maple box

This box is about 1.5 inches wide and about 3 inches tall. The cap is Maple and the knob and the bottom are Pear wood. This Pear is really nice turning wood. I'm looking forward to working more with this, because I have a lot of it. The cap is a piece of spalted Maple with a small knot in it. I thought it might work as a cap. I was wrong. I'm not liking it. There's another look at it below.

Two small bowls

These are (2.5 inch and 3 inch) small bowls I turned on my lathe. That's spalted Plum on the left and mildly spalted Maple on the right. This is essentially practice, using every scrap of wood to hone my turning skills. I am making progress, learning with every turning. I do enjoy this craft.

A small Maple turned box

 This box is made from spalted Maple. It's about 3 inches tall and almost 2 inches wide, made from a section of a branch which I turned on the lathe. I gave it a green sprayed-on flocking lining. Burned-in accent lines on the side at the top and bottom, and an attempt at a little chatter-tool texturing on the top. The end grain in this piece of wood wasn't hard enough to get good texturing with that tool. I ended up with a wooded box that looks like it's been around a long time. I'm OK with that.

A small wooden box with liner

That is a 2.5 x 2.5 inch Douglas fir box with a flocking liner. Quarter inch finger joints, one brass hinge, no latch hardware. Just a nice little box.

From the Mask Series

Here is a mask from a series I did of faux metal masks (in the early 2000's). The masks are made of cardboard and paper and painted with metalic paints; this series, in bronze.
I will post more on this series in the future. I sold this one today to one of my restoration customers.

Trefoil Knot in metal

Here is my latest trefoil knot, made with 1.5 inch wide 1/8 inch thick metal strapping. That's five feet of metal ribbon to make this knot, which makes this knot about one foot in diameter. Here, I've made a mount for it: a cement block base with a 1/2 inch rod on which I welded the knot. The steel is lightly sanded and brushed, then covered with a matte clear coat.

Spalted Apple Bowl

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Here is a 4 inch spalted Apple bowl, about 1.25 inches high. There was a bit of tear-out on the end grain which I decided to accentuate with a gold paint fill. I rubbed the paint into the pits and when dried, I sanded off the surface, leaving paint in the pits. I topped that off with 3 coats of shellac. In the photos there's a narrow depth of field so, one photo has the foreground in focus and the other has the background of the bowl in focus.