Finally got one of those 'round tuits' and turned some good wood into sawdust and noise. And these here things.

ERC, poplar/mesquite, mesquite/spalted pecan. Had a bit of an issue with the last one after one ring blew up and I couldn't find all of it. So, I improvised, adapted and overcomed.

Love the spalted/mesquite one!!!

Very nice designs.

Those are awesome Tony! Love the one in the last two pics. I'll bet that "sawdust" smelled really good too?

Very nice indeed!!

Amazing what can hide inside a board, great work, and if that solid ring is your adapting to overcome

Thanx, guys.

Dave - Those cedar ones made the shop smell pretty good. But then the pecan sort of took all that away. Win some, lose some.

Rusty S - Got that idea from the larger cedar bowls. And then that idea gave me another idea for an entire bowl made that way. We shall see how that comes about. May be a while yet before we see those. It only took me 5 months to get around to doing these.

Some great looking pieces. I am guessing the slots cut on individual rings with router? I sometimes carves and pierce bowls and this gives me ideas for RM bowls.

7 hours ago, Gerald said:

Some great looking pieces. I am guessing the slots cut on individual rings with router? I sometimes carves and pierce bowls and this gives me ideas for RM bowls.

The round end slots are cut with a router before the rings are cut. The squared ends are made by stacking squares together and then cutting rings.

Really nice.

2 hours ago, Mike C said:

Really nice.

Welcome Mike to The Patriot Woodworker. Great to have you on board. Looking forward to your on-going participation with us.

This is great work!

Beautiful designs and execution. Broken ring..who cares. You persevered....if not there is always a contribution to the firewood pile!! Keep spinning. Vern