The enhancement is pretty cool and creative Rusty. That said, that piece of maple is spectacular. Love it.

Well done!

Walnut bowl with wipe on gloss poly. Needs to have name and date engraved yet-

 

Beautiful Lew. That is some gorgeous grained walnut. Love the non-traditional shape.

14 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Love the non-traditional shape.

 Thanks Dave, I thought it was my eyes.

Very nice Lew.

Looks like an original bottom treatment to me. Good job

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Looks like an original bottom treatment to me. Good job

Thank, Gerald!

This is a 14” platter I turned from a walnut crotch. It has one coat of waterlux.

 

3 hours ago, RustyFN said:

This is a 14” platter I turned from a walnut crotch. It has one coat of waterlux.

That is beautiful Rusty.

5 hours ago, RustyFN said:

This is a 14” platter I turned from a walnut crotch. It has one coat of waterlux.

 

Oh, My, Rusty! That is incredible!!

Long story short, I was eyeballing a tree that Picture This said was a butternut (white walnut). I'm 99% convinced it's black walnut. I'm holding out a 1% hope that it's a butternut with really dark heartwood. I'll need to get into it more (need a new chainsaw chain).

 

Anyway, I h ave a personal tradition. When I cut down a tree, I make a bowl right away. In this case I cut out a crotch. I split the crotch to leave the pith on one half. This is the smaller half, consisting entirely of sapwood. My picture timestamps say it was an hour and a half from the time I cut into the tree to the time I had the bowl turned. Apologies for blurry pics.

Wonderful! BTW, that sure looks like a black walnut tree to me.

Hard maple I finished a week or so ago. A friend took my photos and did some Photoshop magic. These are all the same bowl (duh). It's about 8" across. Finished with Myland's. 

Excellent Kent. Agree with Fred, sure looks like Black Walnut.

 

BTW, love your logo embossing. Is it laser?

Thanks for sharing.

27 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Excellent Kent. Agree with Fred, sure looks like Black Walnut.

 

BTW, love your logo embossing. Is it laser?

Thanks for sharing.

 

Yep, laser. The Laserpecker 1 is about $300. I share images directly from Google Photos to Laserpecker. Couldn't be easier. The log incorporates my falconry background.

Beautiful work! From the picture of the felled tree, I'd vote for black walnut

Walnut 8.5” square 2” thick. Turned to 1/4” thick with one coat of walnut oil.

Spectacular shape and that grain really pops!!

Very cool @RustyFN. Love your creativity and out of the box, er bowl thinking. Amazing piece of walnut.

This is from a black locust that had been cut down some years ago. The bowl is 8" and weighs 1.1 lbs. The large hole on the outside doesn't go all the way through.