My name is Isaac Litster, I am an upperclassman in High School. I live in Southeast Alaska on a small temperate rainforest island. I started turning 3 years ago in my high school shop on a Powermatic 3520b sometimes and usually a non-variable-speed 10 x 18 Jet, usually. Since then I convinced my dad to buy a secondhand Craftsman from the 80s for $200, and now we both turn and have bought another secondhand lathe, a Harbor Freight 10 x 18 also for $200. I turn everything that I can, though I don't have any hollowing tools. I enjoy smaller items on the more functional lathe that we have at home, the Harbor Freight, such as rings, tops, boxes, forks/spoons, spheres, and goblets. An old woodturner who has collected exotic woods for dozens of years is now too old to turn and has given the small number of turners on the island some nice wood, including the high school shop. Considering that, I have been turning some bowls at school with the nice variable speed, size, and power of the 3520. I am interested in turning anything. For my whole life, I have been interested in art, and I have been fortunate to be able to try and develop skills and interests in pottery, drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, and cabnitery. Now I think I have found something I can stick with, and that is turning. Sorry about the poor image quality, my computer has a bad camera. SE AK has few native hardwoods and those that are rare, soft, and/or small. Some of the woods for the bowls included in the picture, because you can't tell, are red alder, Yellow Cedar, Mountain Ash/Rowan, and for the foreign woods, maple, walnut, poplar, mahogany, and some unknowns. 
