Small Oak bowl

Not so perfect dish

I posted the top part of this dish/bowl before.  It's not the greatest piece of work because the wood was so rotted and falling apart.  However, I started liking it more and more as it sat around the shop.  I made a base for it... gotta like the spalted wood.

Spalted dish

I tried to turn this dish from another large chunk of very spalted, mostly rotted piece of wood I found in the woods.  It looks terrible up close, it's just too hard to turn with most of it being so soft.  If it was all somewhat stable it would make a really cool looking dish.

Candy dish

This candy dish, or whatever you want to call it, is made from walnut.  It's finished with a blend of boiled linseed oil and clear shellac.

Walnut candy dish

Cool bowl or ugly bowl??

Here's round 2 of the cherry burl log I pulled from the wood pile.  It was much more hole than burl, but I gave it a shot anyway.  I'm sure some will find this very ugly but there are alot of people out there that dig this stuff.  It was very hard to make and I had to keep my tools very sharp or chunks started flying. 

When Afton seen this she said "Oh No, what happened?!"  I guess that's one vote ugly.

Wooden bowl

Dad, I made this from the cherry log I took from your wood pile.  I got this first picture off right in time.  That blurry object is a 2 year old hand reaching in to snatch the bowl. 

Natural Edge Bowls

This lathe is more fun than I thought it would be.  I made a couple natural edge bowls today just to see if I could.

Step 1 - Find an unsuspecting log (no (living)trees were harmed in the making of these bowls)

Step 2 - Cut off a big chunk

Step 3 - Try to maintain patience as bark and water smack you in the face.

Step 4 - Make a big pile of dust and shavings

Step 5 - Done