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  1. Maple Neural Network Bowl - Three views

    Maple Neural Network Bowl - Three views

    I showed this bowl in unfinished form at the Feb 8 Thin Wall demonstration I gave to the Seattle Chapter membership. Before I started piercing I showed it to one of our members who commented on the wonderful figure of the maple . I decided to pierce every alternate ring of the figure in order...
  2. Threaded Maple box

    Threaded Maple box

    Cross-grain Maple box with a hand-chased 8tpi thread. Approx 75mm (3”) diameter. Finished with Hardwax oil and lightly buffed.
  3. Magrathea Bound

    Magrathea Bound

    Multi-axis turned whale in maple on a sapele base. Inspired by a passage from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where against all likelihood a sperm whale comes into existence above the planet Magrathea.
  4. M

    A Chunk of City provided Hard Maple

    The city began removing a dying maple that was also rubbing a street light wire across the street from me this week. By yesterday they were getting closer to the trunk of the tree and by the afternoon the color started to show. I stepped over a mentioned I may want to talk them out of a piece...
  5. Bowl from a board debut

    Bowl from a board debut

    My first gallery post here. Walnut and maple. 9" diameter. 3" tall.
  6. Maple on Maple

    Maple on Maple

    Maple platter 11.25" dia. Airbrushed maple leaves.
  7. Maple box hand-carved and dyed with black spirit stain

    Maple box hand-carved and dyed with black spirit stain

    Carved with a v-shaped chisel head, then dyed thoroughly with black spirit stain. I didn't know when I finished the inside that I would be coliring the outside, so I waxed the inside, which left a bit of an inconsistent finish.
  8. Spalted Range Rider

    Spalted Range Rider

    This Range Rider hat is turned from spalted Maple. I was taught how to turn hats from master turner and fellow OVWG member/friend Dave Kratzer. This one is a mini hat, 7.25 inches diameter and 3.25 inches tall. Sanded, bent in a bending jig and finished with gloss lacquer. They are fun to make!!
  9. Purpura Corallium

    Purpura Corallium

    Maple hollow vessel, carved and textured. Colored with acrylics.
  10. Oberon

    Oberon

    6" high x 7" wide bowl from a Maple burl. Sealed, edge-burned, and waxed. This was actually in my unfinished and don't-know-what-to-do pile for about 3 years because of some punky spots. Glad I found it.
  11. Salvage Job

    Salvage Job

    I turned this originally about a month ago. Let it dry and just hated it. So, I put it back on the lathe with a glue block and completely reshaped it. I mistakenly picked up some Walnut Danish oil, so I used it here. Polished with Beall system. Green Curly Maple.
  12. Balloon BOC box

    Balloon BOC box

    A box for Beads of Courage done with an iridescent paint texture on maple. 7” x 6”.
  13. Big Leaf Maple Bowl

    Big Leaf Maple Bowl

    Big leaf curly maple. Turned wet. Dried and finished with danish oil.
  14. green maple turned, carved and textured

    green maple turned, carved and textured

    First time carving a turning. My name for this particular maple tree is "tear out maple". Seems no matter what I do, I get tear out. West coast big leaf maple. Artist's fixative and Boiled Linseed Oil.
  15. Candle sticks

    Candle sticks

    Figured Maple, African Blackwood, pewter and a bit of sterling silver. Design by Christian Burchard from American Woodturner December 1997. First foray into casting pewter. Making two adds another element for skill training.
  16. Three vases with translucent epoxy inlays.

    Three vases with translucent epoxy inlays.

    Two in cherry and one in spalted maple, all about 3 inches in diameter. For this photo I put a small led battery-powered lamp in the bottom. Can you figure out how I make them?
  17. Milkweed Butterfly view 2

    Milkweed Butterfly view 2

    Frontal view with different lighting.
  18. Milkweed Butterfly Luminary

    Milkweed Butterfly Luminary

    This is "Milkweed Butterfly" the third and final luminary I used for the Seattle Woodturners October mini-Symposium. This one was my "just off the lathe" example for the demo and needed pyrography as well as piercing. This photo includes a view of the inner coating. I used Liquitex opal blue...
  19. Flower Tree Luminary view 2

    Flower Tree Luminary view 2

    This view shows typical lighting when used as a luminary.
  20. Flower Tree Luminary

    Flower Tree Luminary

    This now completed 4x6 maple luminary was the example of a nearly complete vessel for my demonstration at the Seattle Woodturners' October mini-Symposium. It is adapted from a Swiss wall hanging from around 1820. This view is in normal everyday room lighting.
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