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Three of my favorite woods. While the photography isn't all that good, the grain patterns and color are fine. All three turnings are small with the Walnut turning the largest @ 5.5" tall x 4" wide.
 

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All three look pretty good, the middle one is Elm? and the last one of the walnut has a nice shape I like the grooves , nice touch. The natural edge must of been a challenge keeping it together. Nicely done . keep up the good work. :D
 
Actually the middle one is Osage Orange which grows to over 5' in diameter around here. As a matter of fact, I have a 4' section of a trunk that is over 48" in diameter, covered with burl. I've tried to sell it but no takers. I'll turn some, but can't turn it all. Thanks for your comments.
 
I really like the walnut one. Your form is great. Is it hollowed? I also agree the grooves add a nice touch.
The first one(natural edge)-What kind of wood is it? I don't recognize the grain or color.
Stacey
 
Thanks Stacey!! The walnut turning is hollowed. I followed Clay Foster's example from his demo at the Portland Symposium. The top picture(s) are of a NE made from a OLD Mulberry Burl, and hard as steel. The upside was that I didn't have to sand it at all because the gouge cut it quite cleanly.
 
Those are some beauties. I really like the walnut HF but I am kinda partial to walnut. They are all well done.
 
Thanks for the kind comments Bernie; We are baking BIG TIME right now. Several days in a row over 100 with the heat index around 110. Come on fall!!
 
We are baking to. For some reason we have been having extremely high humidity for this area. Normally around 9 to 10 percent this time of year but it has been up between 35 and 55 percent. I know that is not high for some area's but here it is a killer.
 
Hopefully this temperature hike will be broken this weekend. Our humidity usually is around 50-65%. I love your part of the state in the late fall when the Pheasants become the prize.
 
Yep and the crop looks pretty good. I just saw a batch of young roosters today. They are looking mighty fine. I couldn't stand 100 + heat with that kind of humidity. The older I get the worse it feels to me.
 
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