platter

Red Maple Burl Wide-Rim Platter, 17 1/2"W x 3 1/2"H. Log recycled from the city tree dump. next photo shows the front view.

This is a turned off center platter with inlays. The platter is cocbolo. The inlaid black sticks are ebony. The domed circles are 24K gold leaf and are also inlaid.

I roughed this 12 (x1.25) inch Maple Platter in 12/06. I finally turned it to final thickness and finished in last October for my wife. The tree was given to me by a co-worker and friend. The other side of this crotch was donated to the Christmas Party Door Prize collection at work. This is the...

Honey locust. 10" x 8" X D3".

The Black Limba blank was a gift from a friend. It finishes beautifully. Size:12" X 2"

Pohutakawa Platter 22inches Dia its not often you get a piece of Pohutakawa without defects, cracks, bark intrusions or dozy spots I wet turned this to about an inch thick a year ago. Hopefully I have done the flowers justice as the tree when in bloom is the most amazing site, a crimson haze...

This piece was rough turned from wet Water Hickory (Red Pecan), harvested in Southeast Texas in 2004. The turning sat drying for 4 years, waiting to become something more than a mere shallow bowl. In April of this year, I retrieved it for final turning and carving and completion of the egg...

This piece was rough turned from wet Water Hickory (Red Pecan), harvested in Southeast Texas in 2004. The turning sat drying for 4 years, waiting to become something more than a mere shallow bowl. In April of this year, I retrieved it for final turning and carving and completion of the egg...

Cherry Wood approximately 6" x 1 1/2"

Made from a piece of cypress tabletop left in a barn for many years..Difficult to work with and finish, being so soft..Used 3 shades of tint on the flames. Around 35" biggest dim. Insert is angico. Photo: Arlan Heiser

This is a 10" diameter mahogany platter with woodburned spirals.

This is a White Oak Platter painted with black Gesso and Black acrylic. It measures about 11" in diameter and the white "eclipse" rim is about 6" diameter.

This is a piece of Jatoba about 10" in diameter. The grapevines are free hand pyrography.

Birdseye maple. Inscribed circle of 10 inches, diameter of circle at wing-tips is 14 inches.

Big leaf maple platter, 13" dia x 2 1/2" h. Oil finish, buffed and waxed.

Top view of same platter Black Walnut Crotch Approx 9 x 2 Gel Poly finish This shape was adapted from Mark Baker's book; "Woodturning Projects: A Workshop Guide to Shapes". It was challenging to make the bottom until I finished that Longworth chuck I'd been working on.

Black Walnut Platter Approx 9 x 2 Gel Poly finish Commission piece for a friend made from a blank he chose out of several. This came off the same limb that fell on my pastor's house. Still working on the pile!

Ancient Kauri ,beaded ,textured then gold ,copper ,and silver leaf applied piece by piece ,Allot of work but I feel it is worth the effort .This kauri was carbon dated 750 plus or minus 50 years by Waikato university timberly@xtra.co.nz Comments welcome

550mm ancient kauri ,beaded ,textured ,then gold copper and silver leaf applied piece by piece to give pattern