46 minutes ago, kreisdorph said:

Incense burner for my wife. Elm finished with Ack's polishing compound and Ack's wax. The last picture is under a blacklight. 

 

Sweet! I never knew that elm fluoresced!

Wow, spectacular effect

Makes me feel like the 60's again

Far out man.  I like it.

On 7/14/2024 at 6:17 PM, Gerald said:

After a bit over two weeks it is done. Doing patches and sanding was the worst part of it all. Finish is semi gloss lacquer. Bowl is magnolia. Collar may be a rosewood. Finial may be zircote .

Patches are Spalted pecan

 MAGNIFICENT Gerald!

On 7/23/2024 at 10:24 AM, kreisdorph said:

Thin-walled black locust

 

On 7/31/2024 at 9:03 AM, kreisdorph said:

A small elm chalice (I guess).

 

On 8/12/2024 at 10:58 AM, kreisdorph said:

Incense burner for my wife.

 

WOW Kent. You have been busy. All spectacular pieces

Well, not quite recently finished. I found this at the bottom of a pile of bowls. I had forgotten I made it. This boxelder crotch bowl was taken high in the tree where the flame didn't reach. I like the look of white boxelder, especially with this feathering.

 

 

I love that shape!

I do love the crotch... bowl.

I recently finished this piece of spalted hickory. 

This is a piece of red oak. It is the largest hunk of wood I've ever had on my lathe. I can honestly say it was the scariest thing I've ever turned. I think I must have ground down an entire gouge on this thing because it was hard as a rock. Lol.

Nice pieces, no doubt that last piece was a butt puckering episode. You got a pretty cool looking shape out of it.

6 hours ago, User74 said:

I recently finished this piece of spalted hickory. 

 

Love the shape!

6 hours ago, User74 said:

This is a piece of red oak. It is the largest hunk of wood I've ever had on my lathe. I can honestly say it was the scariest thing I've ever turned. I think I must have ground down an entire gouge on this thing because it was hard as a rock. Lol.

 

Awesome looking natural edge bowl!

15 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Nice pieces, no doubt that last piece was a butt puckering episode. You got a pretty cool looking shape out of it.

It definitely was a bit nerve racking. I had to turn it down a bit more than I really wanted to get rid of some cracks but I do like the shape.

I really love the color ib that piece.

I posted about this piece on the AAW forums. It was really punky in spots, tried to blow apart on me, worms holes, the whole nine yards. I eventually beat it into submission. 11" diameter.

 

I spend hours in my screen porch. My log pile is straight out from the porch, so I look at it every day. Everyone once in a while, corny as it sounds, I hear a piece of wood calling to me. I have been looking at this piece of mulberry for over a year. Sunday was the day. Those darned cracks are something you can count on with mulberry. Minimal in this case.

 

8" x 3.5", Tried and True Original.

 

 

@kreisdorph Wow, that spalted piece is beautiful and I love the shape on the mulberry !!

Finished this one today. Measures 12” across by 3”. A dead Ash tree fell over in the neighbors property. I was able to get a couple pieces from it.  While I was taking the tenon off the nub gave up causing it to come loose from the jam chuck causing a slight mark on the edge but I’m still happy with it. Finished with tried and true original. 
Not sure why the double pictures

34 minutes ago, Gordon said:

Finished this one today. Measures 12” across by 3”. A dead Ash tree fell over in the neighbors property. I was able to get a couple pieces from it.  While I was taking the tenon off the nub gave up causing it to come loose from the jam chuck causing a slight mark on the edge but I’m still happy with it. Finished with tried and true original. 
Not sure why the double pictures

Gorgeous!  Fixed the images