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Related: About this forumSpring / Summer 2019 turning projects
Here are a few more things I've been doing in the shop..
This is a shallow plate made from London Plane (a hybrid of plane and sycamore).
This is a small garlic press with mesquite handles.
This is probably the last walnut bowl I'll turn. I've become sensitized to it, and it sets my allergies off.
I made my wife a replacement wedding ring from crushed opal and tungsten.
This is a travel mug I made from bradford pear.
This is a neat little gadget. It's a soda can opener made from osage orange (bois d'ark).
I made these measuring spoons from spalted sycamore that I'd dye stabilized.
I really love bradford pear. Such a lovely color.
Something for the dogs to chase, a laser pointer in dyed curly maple.
A friend of mine is a hiker, this fire starter should be useful. Sycamore is the wood.
Another bottle opener, this time in pecan.
This bowl started out as a dough bowl, with very thick walls. My wife started making bigger loaves, so it wasn't needed. I carved the walls down to be scalloped.
This ring is from green acrylic over a stainless steel core.
This was an experiment. I inlaid shell fragments in a shallow trough in the bowl's rim, and then filled with epoxy resin.

Backseat Driver
(4,663 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)5X
(3,988 posts)Where do you get your wood?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)I watch facebook marketplace and craigslist for free wood, and I drive around the neighborhood looking for wood piled up on the curb.
I hate seeing such lovely wood go to the landfill.
Of those above, the bradford pear, cherry, mesquite, walnut, maple, pecan, and osage orange were all curb finds.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)You are extremely talented!
Maraya1969
(23,213 posts)
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Bayard
(24,435 posts)You are a very talented artist. Do you have a website with items to purchase?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)The wife has a moratorium on bringing in any more bowls to the house.
Bayard
(24,435 posts)Here's my mailing address......
Skinner
(63,645 posts)Nicely done.
Dem2theMax
(10,611 posts)For most of my adult life I have dreamed of working with wood, but don't have the room for the tools, and I don't have anyone to teach me. And now I have some really serious arthritis in my hands, so it's pretty much out of the question at this point.
So I will sit here and drool over your work. And wish that you did sell it!
X_Digger
(18,585 posts).. the AAW (American Association of Woodturners) have open shop days where you can try out turning on their equipment.
It's not something that requires a lot of hand *strength* but it does require a decent amount of hand *control*.
Dem2theMax
(10,611 posts)I'm a woman, and I don't traditionally see a lot of women wanting to do stuff like this. But as I got older, I absolutely fell in love with the kind of work that you are doing. I've kept copies of pictures I have seen over the years of incredible woodwork.
I definitely don't have hand strength anymore, control is a bit iffy. But I would love to at least go and see one of these places. I will p.m. you my location and maybe you can come up with something that is somewhat close to me.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)The AAW even has some resources for women in wood turning.
https://www.woodturner.org/page/WIT
Dem2theMax
(10,611 posts)Thank you so much.
Karadeniz
(23,942 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,464 posts)sinkingfeeling
(54,455 posts)csziggy
(34,189 posts)Sorry to hear about your black walnut allergy. I was going to ask what part of the world you're in. I have a smallish black walnut tree that blew over in a hurricane a couple of years ago. It's still alive but I have not been able to find a crafts person who would use the wood. I had the husband of a friend kind of interested, but she's passed away and I no longer have contact with him.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)At least not before I have an epi-pen on hand.
Grey
(1,584 posts)Those are just lovely.
electric_blue68
(20,234 posts)wonderful work!
The Bradford pear bowl, the wedding ring!
Like the broken shells on the wooden bowl rim.
The pecan handle - lovely wood.
I loved the metal shop and wood shop at my Art College decades back.
I can't believe though after seeing some wood turning on my FB page that I never looked for a lathe in the woodshop back then!
Hopefully you show us this year's work.