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  1. Rings Around Neptune

    Rings Around Neptune

    Maple sphere and off axis platter. Figured maple colored with TransTint dyes. Lacquer finish.
    • Bill Boehme
    • Media item
    • dye maple platter sphere
    • Comments: 4
    • Album: Bill Boehme's Album
  2. Maple and Geometry

    Maple and Geometry

    Dyed rim maple platter 10" diameter. Chestnut dyes and lacquer finish. Rim has embedded copper braid partially turned away to create the pattern. Alternate view to more clearly show the copper braid detail.
    • Bill Boehme
    • Media item
    • braid copper dyed inlace lacquer maple platter
    • Comments: 7
    • Album: Bill Boehme's Album
  3. Woven Basket Illusion

    Woven Basket Illusion

    My first basket illusion. This was a practice piece. I learned a lot about what does and doesn't work. Maple wood was beaded and then burned to create the basket weave pattern and colored with Prismacolor markers and a clear acrylic topcoat applied.
    • Bill Boehme
    • Media item
    • illusion insanity maple prismacolor pyrography woven
    • Comments: 3
    • Album: Bill Boehme's Album
  4. J

    My first segmented turning an urn for a friends dads cremains

    I have a dear friend that wanted an urn for her dads cremains. We looked at a lot of different designs and she decided she wanted a segmented urn. I had never done a segmented turning before so I began educating myself on segmented turning. After a lot of research I found how to make a sled for...
  5. T

    What would you do with this ?

    I acquired this large maple burl about 2 years ago. I sealed it up with Anchor Seal and left in my woodpile until today. I pulled all of the bark off. ( it was all but off already ) and hosed it off. The burl is about 20 " at the widest point. My lathe has a 16 " swing. I am really...
  6. W

    Deleting Posts Q

    Anyone know how to permanently delete my old posts?
  7. John Torchick

    Segmented bowl video

    I was browsing through another forum that I frequent and found this video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Is anyone familiar with the gentleman who made the video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qFFS9PsghCI
  8. Little Wind Hollow Form

    Little Wind Hollow Form

    Figured Maple Hollow Form, turned and carved. The dimensions are 6" round by 2.5" tall, finished with satin polyurethane.
    • Roger Meeker
    • Media item
    • carved form hollow maple turned
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  9. Atariak

    Atariak

    A natural-edge vessel turned from a Big Leaf Maple burl cap with bleached accent rings. The base posts were turned out of Madagascar Ebony and the base from African Mahogany. "Atariak" is Basque for "Portals". Widest diameter:27 1/2" Height (including Base): 25&quot...
    • Allen Alexopulos
    • Media item
    • big bleach blm leaf maple
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Member Galleries
  10. "Passion"

    "Passion"

    From "Symbols of Person, Series 1", this is "Passion." 5 1/2 in. diameter x 1 in. depth, ogee bowl, made from maple burl. Pyrographized, and gilded with 24k gold. Though better seen in person then in the photo, the pyro- work is done in what I call "directional...
    • Katherine Kowalski
    • Media item
    • bowl burl decorative gilding gold maple
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  11.

    This segmented ball is about 5 1/2 inches in diameter and has 416 pieces. All the rings were tapered at one end before I glued them together. The base is carved out of Wenge.
    • David Balgaard
    • Media item
    • bloodwood maple wenge
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Member Galleries
  12. Woven Basket Illusion

    Woven Basket Illusion

    Re-shoot for photographic lighting critique. Ugly holder.
    • Bill Boehme
    • Media item
    • basket illusion lacquer maple prismacolor pyrography ugly wire frame
    • Comments: 6
    • Album: Bill Boehme's Album
  13. Carved segmented turning.

    Carved segmented turning.

    9 inches in diameter and stands 3 1/2 in tall. This is my first shot at carving a segmented turning. The woods are sapele, maple and walnut.
    • David Balgaard
    • Media item
    • carved maple sapele segmented
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Member Galleries
  14. Peyoke Medicine Bowl

    Peyoke Medicine Bowl

    The Peyoke Medicine Bowl is a tribal mortar and pestle. A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind and mix, in this case, medicinal herbs and plants. The mortar, which is almost 6 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, is the bowl and the pestle, which is just over 5 inches long and 1 1/2...
    • Ted Monk
    • Media item
    • and bowl burning maple mortar pestle texturing
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Member Galleries
  15. Birdseye Maple

    Birdseye Maple

    Birdseye Maple with Ebony lid/finial. Measures 5" dia. x 4-1/2" tall. Dyed with Artisan dyes. Finished with Antique Oil and buffed.
    • Keith Burns
    • Media item
    • birdseye maple
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Member Galleries
  16. Silver Maple Burl Bowl #1220

    Silver Maple Burl Bowl #1220

    Silver Maple Burl Bowl from Roxborough St.,Toronto. Dimensions: 10 1/4"W x 4"H
    • michael_finkelstein
    • Media item
    • burl maple silver
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  17. 'Dragon Fly Escape'

    'Dragon Fly Escape'

    Big Leaf Maple burl, pierced, mounted in a piece of California Buckeye Burl. Piece measures 12" across by 3/32" thick
    • Woodscaper
    • Media item
    • burl maple
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Member Galleries
  18. Almost Bowl - Curly Maple

    Almost Bowl - Curly Maple

    • Kit Sinclair
    • Media item
    • maple
    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Sophomore Album
  19. Plate

    Plate

    Tiger maple plate is 9 1/2" dia.
    • Billhoward
    • Media item
    • maple tiger
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Member Galleries
  20. Silver Maple Burl Bowl #1227

    Silver Maple Burl Bowl #1227

    Silver Maple Burl Bowl, log recycled from Roxborough Street, Toronto. Very High Figure with Ambrosia & Bark Inclusion. I sealed about 40 ambrosia holes in this bowl Dimensions: 13 3/4"W x 6 3/4"H
    • michael_finkelstein
    • Media item
    • ambrosia burl figure maple silver
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
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