Silver Birch Vase

Silver Birch Vase

This is my first photo uploaded to the WOW (World of Wood turners), I remade the photo booth.  The vase is a piece of silver birch from a friends cottage after a heavy rain and wind storm. It is 10 1/2″ tall and the base is 2 1/2″ wide and hollowed down 9 1/2″. The…

Maple Bowl

Maple Bowl

A nice maple bowl that is ready for a good salad. It is 13″ by 5 1/2″ . The wood was from a log I purchase at a wood auction. Several family memebrs have some of the same log that I turned for them.

Red Mallee Burl

Red Mallee Burl

This little fellow has travelled a great distance to get here. It comes to us from the forests of Australia. I purchased the burl from John at Woodchuckers in Weston Ontario. The colours a very nice and it has a great feel to it. The bowl is 3″ by 5″. With this wood you have…

Ambrosia Maple Bowl

Ambrosia Maple Bowl

Ambrosia Maple, is maple that has been drawn on by a little bettle. It does create some very interesting art work, unfortunately when it has finished the tree usually dies. I got this piece north of Kingston. The bowl is 8 1/2″ by 3 and will grace any table. The art work is much better…

Spruce Burl Bowl

Spruce Burl Bowl

This burl bowl was a challenge to turn as the top was anything but even. It is rather thick so that I could save some of the bark. It has some nice figure near the bottom right. Not a burls have the great figure but mother nature does her best. This one is 10″ by…

The Atrist’s Palette

The Atrist’s Palette

This piece of spruce burl was made into a shallow dish that is 12″ by 2″. The creation, when I was finished looked to me just like an artist’s palette , hence the name. The Chatoyance (changing colour of the grain) has to be seen in person. It is a really amazing piece of wood….

Spruce Burl Vase

Spruce Burl Vase

An elegant little vase made from  a spruce burl with accents of purple heart and cocobolo woods. The colours re much better in real life than the picture shows. It is 7 1/2″ tall and about 3″ near the base.

Red Maple

Red Maple

This vase is a piece of red maple that the hydro was cutting and a friend picked some up. At our Kingston Woodturners meeting he brought it for the 50/50 draw and I was lucky enough to win it. It is 9″ tall and about 3″ at the bottom, the wall thickness is 1/8″ for most…

Small Juniper Vase

Small Juniper Vase

A small piece of juniper from John & Diane’s laneway renovations was turned into this 6″ by 3″ vase. On doing the neck of the vase I got to thin and suddenly had a window. It was fixed using ca glue and shaving from the turning. The wood has a better colour than the photo…

Jumping Juniper

Jumping Juniper

This vase was created from a piece of Juniper that we got from a friends driveway widening project. The colour and aroma of the wood is great. The photo doesn’t get the real colour. Each piece of the tree had long cracks and these were filled with ca glue and shavings from the turning. So far…