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Big Leaf Maple with a bit of figure, a bit of spalt, and a bit of added texture. Approx 6”d x 4”h

This small box 60mm tall 40mm in diameter was decorated on my Rose Engine lathe. The wood is unknown by me but was quite dense so it took the pattern well. The top has a white CZ inserted in the centre of the pattern. The inside of the lid is also decorated and has a blue CZ stone in the centre...

5” x 5” hollow form turned from Claro walnut. Finished with several coats of shellac and buffed with white diamond compound. March 2024.

Cerejeira, Avodire, Leopardwood, Ebony, Maple with purpleheart accents on the rim. 7.5" D 4-3/8"H. 3/32" walls on the top 2/3. 5/32" near the base. Potato chip thin. The rim is a somewhat thin as well but is undercut to appear thicker.

Greek column head in old oak, stone insert, earth joint and oil finish .11"

Carved with burrs and a die grinder

Maple spin tops turned in one piece, hand-painted with many layers of transparent acrylic paints on top and underside. Installed a bearing ball for extra long spinning time. Flowers are “Orange Cosmos” and “Black-eyed Susan”. Size 2 1/2” X 3”. Maple burl base for storing the tops upright.

Was posting some of my early work to instagram and thought I should do the same here. This piece was titled Emerging World. 10 inches in diameter by 14 tall. Made from Cocobolo and curly maple. I did do work that was not Chaco related at one time.

Big Leaf Maple Burl. Dyed maple leg and finial. About 9.5" tall. Lacquer finish.

9" Cherry bowl, Pear barrel with carved barrel staves, Apple hollow form with live edge

One of the pieces from my intial follow along project in the Forum. Thought I would get it into my gallery! I highly recommend that members do a follow along project to help everyone understand processes! Let's do this!!

10 x 4 inches, 1st turned in September ‘21 My goal, on this piece was to keep the ash as bright as I could. Whitened with two part wood bleach, then finished with shellac, a one pound cut of ultra blonde shellac flakes and DNA. Brushed it on and sanded back, three coats. Not sure if it should...

These 3 nested Arbutus Burl bowls are the cores from my previous post. These bowls were all green turned and wet sanded within a few days of being harvested. They are all about ¼” thick and have 3 carved feet so they will sit flat after they morph. Finished with 2 coats of tung oil. This process...

The globe is Cherry burl that I dyed red. The drop finial/icicle and top are ebony. I used a few coats of spray can lacquer for the finish.

15” wide by 12” high. Made with Maple, Wenge, and Bloodwood. There are 180 segments per row with 83 rows.

To follow, the staff sent me a card after I got home from the CPR. I scanned the card and with my laser I inserted into the large heart in the center. There are 8 hearts around the bowl. Eight has no significance. I signed the bowl on the bottom and dated it December 1, 2020.

Some turnings have a story. Here is my story. September 2020 I had open heart surgery and all went well. On December,ber 1, 2020 while in rehab at the hospital I was on the treadmill “pushing” myself and then was basically “gone”, no pulse. After two rounds of CPR I was revived with about 30...

It is time to hang the mushrooms on the tree.

7.25”d x 5”h Finished with Parfix 3408.

My early obsession was radio and electronics. Not into sports I was the one holed up in his room disassembling some device, building something that might at least make smoke or late night scouring the AM bands searching out some faraway station. 
In a junk store I ran across an old 6Z5 tube in...