A small pecan hollow form I made this weekend. Beautiful grain and color in this wood.
4 1/4″ high. Friction polish finish.
Pecan hollow form
Double the fun
This was a fun one: this plate came from a piece of green ash with three branches coming out of it, giving it two plumes of beautiful crotch figure.
9 1/2″ diameter, food-safe walnut oil finish.
A couple more figured green ash pieces
Here’s a small plate in figured green ash.
8 inches diameter, with a food-safe walnut oil finish. To buy this item, click here.
And here’s a small bowl, also in figured green ash. This one is 6 3/4 inches diameter, and 2 inches high. The finish is food-safe walnut oil.
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Green ash bowl with crotch figure
Here’s a lovely bowl turned from a green ash crotch. I never get tired of the figure you find in these pieces.
Here’s a peek inside at the grain and figure.
Gene’s urn
I finally made the lid for the urn I turned a few months ago.
The urn is spalted silver maple, 9 inches high, and 7 inches diameter. The lid is black walnut. Friction Polish on both.
Spalted maple urn
I believe that God is the artist, and that I have been granted the amazing privilege of unveiling his work. This amazing coloring that I found inside a maple log illustrates that belief perfectly.
This will be the cremation urn for a friend, so there will be a lid for this (probably walnut).
9 inches tall, 7 inches diameter. Friction polish finish.
Another honey locust bowl
This bowl is the slightly bigger sibling of the previous one, coming from the opposite side of the log. Honey locust is heavy, dense wood, and can be a bit of a challenge to work with; I had to stop and resharpen my tools frequently on this one. But the end result is worth the effort.
It’s just a smidgen over 12 inches diameter, and stands 5 5/8 inches high. Walnut oil finish.
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Honey locust bowl
A large honey locust tree in our neighborhood blew down last summer, and the owners let me have a few pieces. This is one of the products.
11 1/2 inches diameter, 4 1/4 inches high. Walnut oil finish.
Listening to the wood
I had not intended to make a fruit bowl when I started working with this piece of honey locust crotch. But viewed from the top, this one looks to me like a slice through an apple, so I’m calling it a fruit bowl.
When the wood tells you what it wants to be, you should listen.
12 inches tip to tip, 4 1/2 inches high. Teak oil finish.
Buckthorn natural edge
Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) is a non-native and invasive shrubby tree in North Dakota, and it’s making a nuisance of itself in the woodlot at my family’s farm. This bowl came from a sizable crotch piece that I cut and turned last fall, and finally sanded and finished last week. The wood is lovely, but it has a tendency to crack badly as it dries; this piece was no exception, and I had to fill several cracks with cyanoacrylate glue and sawdust.
9 inches long, teak oil finish.
Willow Lake Woodworks 