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  1. Celebration Basket

    Celebration Basket

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  2. Spalted Maple Urn

    Spalted Maple Urn

    Small spalted maple urn, tung oil finish, top is plain maple with black gloss spray paint.
  3. Various vases

    Various vases

    Left to right: American Black Walnut, Spalted Maple and Cherry
  4. Maple Platter

    Maple Platter

    This 18" platter started out as a waste piece from a larger blank but I just couldn't let it go. I really loved the grain patterns and when it cracked I used epoxy as a filler. The finish is tung oil.
  5. Navajo Rain Cross

    Navajo Rain Cross

    Navajo ceremonial basket design. The symbol is also used to represent Spider Woman, the first Navajo deity. The basket is twelve inches in diameter and the wood is maple. Pyrography and ink were used to create the basket illusion. Donated to SWAT 2019 symposium and selected as an auction item.
  6. Maple natural edge bowl

    Maple natural edge bowl

    Maple natural edge bowl About 8" tall. This piece of maple is beautiful, it has some really nice color in the figured grain, wood from Salem, ma
  7. Bleached maple ball foot stool

    Bleached maple ball foot stool

    Bleached maple ball foot stool. 12" seat x 21" high. Through wedged tenons and brass cross pins
  8. Basket Illusion #2

    Basket Illusion #2

    Twelve inch diameter maple Native American basket illusion.
  9. Celebration Basket

    Celebration Basket

    Navajo Wedding Basket Illusion, 14½ inches diameter, 2¾ inches high, maple, beaded, burned, and colored in the style of the traditional wedding/celebration baskets. The wood is thin enough that bright light can shine through between the rows of beads. This piece was donated to the Woodturners of...
  10. Yarn Bowl

    Yarn Bowl

    Figured maple yarn bowl dyed with Chestnut dyes and finished with lacquer.
  11. Tranquility

    Tranquility

    My first dyed rim platter on highly figured maple. This piece was made in 2010.
  12. Rings Around Neptune

    Rings Around Neptune

    Maple sphere and off axis platter. Figured maple colored with TransTint dyes. Lacquer finish.
  13. Maple and Geometry

    Maple and Geometry

    Dyed rim maple platter 10" diameter. Chestnut dyes and lacquer finish. Rim has embedded copper braid partially turned away to create the pattern. Alternate view to more clearly show the copper braid detail.
  14. Woven Basket Illusion

    Woven Basket Illusion

    My first basket illusion. This was a practice piece. I learned a lot about what does and doesn't work. Maple wood was beaded and then burned to create the basket weave pattern and colored with Prismacolor markers and a clear acrylic topcoat applied.
  15. J

    My first segmented turning an urn for a friends dads cremains

    I have a dear friend that wanted an urn for her dads cremains. We looked at a lot of different designs and she decided she wanted a segmented urn. I had never done a segmented turning before so I began educating myself on segmented turning. After a lot of research I found how to make a sled for...
  16. T

    What would you do with this ?

    I acquired this large maple burl about 2 years ago. I sealed it up with Anchor Seal and left in my woodpile until today. I pulled all of the bark off. ( it was all but off already ) and hosed it off. The burl is about 20 " at the widest point. My lathe has a 16 " swing. I am really...
  17. W

    Deleting Posts Q

    Anyone know how to permanently delete my old posts?
  18. John Torchick

    Segmented bowl video

    I was browsing through another forum that I frequent and found this video. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Is anyone familiar with the gentleman who made the video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qFFS9PsghCI
  19. Little Wind Hollow Form

    Little Wind Hollow Form

    Figured Maple Hollow Form, turned and carved. The dimensions are 6" round by 2.5" tall, finished with satin polyurethane.
  20. Atariak

    Atariak

    A natural-edge vessel turned from a Big Leaf Maple burl cap with bleached accent rings. The base posts were turned out of Madagascar Ebony and the base from African Mahogany. "Atariak" is Basque for "Portals". Widest diameter:27 1/2" Height (including Base): 25&quot...
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