Maple urn with walnut

This piece had been sitting unfinished for a year in my shop. It had some end grain cracks in the maple but they haven’t changed in a year. I turned out a bigger hole and inserted a nice walnut lip. The lid is also maple but lacquered black for contrast. The cherry spindle just came out of the scrap pile. The urn is about 7 1/2″ tall with lid and 5″ in diameter. The whole piece has a satin lacquer finish.

Sold at Oxford Artist Studio Tour

Open Segmented Walnut Pot

This was just an experiment that I had in mind to try for a long time. I had seen other people make similar vessels using jigs and convoluted methods to get this effect. This was done by putting strips of pvc lumber between regular segments. The glue won’t stick to this material and I was able to just pop them out before turning. The lid is temporary and came from another project sitting in stock (and just happened to fit perfectly — what a shock). This may be good for a potpourri pot or house a candle (without using the lid or and LED candle with lid on). 

Reworking a segmented vessel

This project I did many months ago but I never really liked it. The original had a wide lip and was dyed an orange color. After reshaping and building a new lid I think the finished product presents itself much better and the maple and walnut segments retain their natural beauty. I tried to bring the new walnut lid’s shape into the overall shape of the urn in a natural flow.

Lidded Walnut Jar

From a log I cut last year from a fallen tree. Cut on a day that was about 110 degrees in the shade! It was time to move this along now that it had seasoned for almost a year. Plenty of sap wood to accentuate the dark walnut grain. The lid shown here did not please me so I replaced it with a solid cherry one (can be seen at Etsy with the new lid)

Currently Available in my Etsy Store

Recreation of past green dyed urn

Once again I turned something similar to one I really liked that sold recently. I didn’t bring the photo up of the old project since I didn’t want to duplicate it. I went back after finishing and looked though and I like this one even better. Up to  6 coats of lacquer but I plan on a few more to take care of a few flat spots. This was the first day I had to spray outside for quite a while. Rain did come in a couple of hours after I finished, I guess I got lucky. The lid is some canary wood of which I have a few small pieces squirreled away. This will probably end up on Etsy next week.

Another spalted wood lidded pot

I sold my favorite spalted piece at Oxford Day a few weeks ago (a very successful show despite the nasty weather). It was the only piece on display with no price and I had the buyer dicker for it since I was not that keen on selling. This one is a variation on that design of the spalted wood with darker top and bottom. The darker wood is sapele and I believe the spalted section is oak (maybe, perhaps). There is a bit of bug damage which actually adds some character to the piece.

 

Segmented Lidded Pot

This pot was made to take advantage of a strip of highly figured walnut that was laying around the shop. The strips between the segments are a bit of exotic wood from the scrap bin. Top and bottom are ash and the lid is from another piece of walnut. This piece is available in my Etsy store.   SOLD

Natural Turned Jar

I’m not sure this is big enough for anything but a wooden jar but working within the confines of the wood, this is what I came up with. The figure in this is splendid and demanded to be used. The lid is a piece of bloodwood which I had never used but was included with that generous give away I received from a friend a while back. 

Turning off cuts

I don’t like to waste wood and when I have small chunks of logs sitting around that were waste from other projects, I like to make something from them. This little vase is one such project. It was the remains of a cherry log I had turned a bowl out of. The purpleheart band and neck were from some small pieces that were given to me a few weeks ago. Vase is about 3″ in diameter and has been spoken for by a friend who just couldn’t put it down after seeing it on my bench.