Spalted Maple Bowl #193
Piece #193 – Spalted Maple – 10″ dia x 4.5″ – Sold
This bowl has a wide undercut rim. That means the rim is wider and thicker than the walls of the bowl. It is made from maple that was naturally spalted while in contact with the ground for a couple of years.
Sold this bowl at the Lenoir City Arts and crafts Festival on June 5th.
Finial Box #190
Piece #190 – Elm botton, Red Cedar Top – 6″ dia x 8″ – Sold
This quaint little jewelry box is quite striking. It had an internal void which appeared as I was turning it. I decided to fill the void with turquoise lace and white crushed granite.
Pot with Inlaid Base #197
Piece #197 – Guanacaste (Ear Tree) – 5.5″ dia x 6″ – Sold
This charming little piece is from the Guanacaste Tree of Costa Rica. It has an inlaid ring around its base giving it a Southwestern flair.
Salad Bowl with Inlaid Base #192
Piece #192 – Oak – 13 dia x 5 – SOLD
This large oak salad bowl has an inlaid ring around its base.
Maple Vase #191
Piece #191 – Spalted Maple – 5.5″ dia by 9.5″ – SOLD
Square Bowl #195
Piece #195 – Camphor – 8.5″ dia by 5″ – Sold
This natural bark edge bowl has a square wing created one third way up from the bottom.
Camphor smells like Vick’s Vapor Rub when it is being cut. The whole house fills up with the aroma when I turn this wood. I usually keep the doors open until it is complete.
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Pet Cremation Urn #199
Piece #199 – Spalted Maple – 5.5″ dia by 7.5″ – Sold
This is the second in a series of Urns that I’m working on. The first one turned out so nice that my beloved dog, Keku, resides within. (click here to see it)
It was my wife’s idea to make the Urn for Keku. Keku passed away three years ago and her ashes had been in the tin container she came home in. Ohh that makes me feel like a bad master. Now she has this beautiful Urn that has the place of honor in our glass display cabinet.
For some reason I feel better now that Keku has a beautiful new resting place. I always felt bad that she was in that tin can and I could have made her a special place. She deserves to be in a work of art that portrayed the beauty and love that she brought into my life.
Salad Bowl #202
Piece # 202 – Spalted Oak – 14″ dia x 4.5″ – Sold
Sometimes what you end up with is not what you wanted. You would not know to look at this beautiful bowl that it is not what I had in mind when I started this piece. I thought the wood for this bowl was dry enough when I started, but that’s the mystery of wood. 
My initial design was a much deeper bowl with a smaller bottom and two beads around the top rim. My problem was that I did not leave enough thickness around the top rim when I rough cut the bowl. I set the bowl aside to dry further. When I came back to it a month later the top had warped substantially. So much so that when I put it back on the lathe to true it back up there was not enough material along the top to leave in the beads. I had to remove the top two inches of the bowl.
Man was I ticked-off. If my temper had gotten the best of me the bowl would have ended up a splintered heap on my scrap pile. However, patience prevailed and I have this beautiful salad bowl that someone will one day cherish. There’s a lesson here somewhere – I think.
Ribbon Box
This jewelry box is one of a pair I made at Christmas. I gave one to my Mother and this one to my Wife. It is made from the sapwood of the Guanacaste tree. The ribbon is Purple Heart and Maple. The inside dividers are Maple stained with MinWax Walnut. The box is 9 inches long 5 inches wide and 3 inches deep.
Fruit Bowl #183
Piece #183 – Camphor – 10.5″ dia by 3″ – SOLD
This striking camphor bowl came from my stash of Camphor from a Florida Camphor tree cut down by friends Sheri and Doug. I have a lot of Camphor. I gave this bowl to my Aunt Brenda from Ohio. She was just wishing for a new fruit bowl. Now she has one.
Acorn Round Box #186
Piece #186 – Oak, Walnut, Maple, Acorn – 4″ dia by 4.5″ – Sold
This composite box is the result of whim on a late weeknight. I had nothing to do so I went out to the shop to putz around. I found this small piece of oak with beautiful bark. It was too small to use by itself so I glued up some other scraps. When it was finished it needed a little something else so I added the acorn on the lid. Bam!
Pedestal Bowl #187
Piece #187 – Spalted Oak – 9″ dia by 4″ – SOLD
This piece was a failure that turned into a magnificent piece of eye candy. The bowl is a piece of spalted oak that I made using my secret beer spalting process. I don’t know what the base is made from. I picked it up out of a box of scraps at Amazon Exotic Hardwoods in Orlando Florida.
As I was cutting the tenon off of this bowl my tool dipped and the resulting catch tore the bowl off of the tenon. The result was a bowl with a hole in the bottom. “Another piece of firewood”, I thought at first. But I sat it aside and started a new bowl. Several weeks later I picked it up and had an epiphany. “Why not add a pedestal?” Here it is.
Pedestal Closed Form #184
Piece #184 – Camphor – 7.5″ dia by 5″ – SOLD
This camphor closed form has a curved bark surface. It makes the piece quite remarkable. The pedestal base makes it different. The symmetric grain patterns frame the bark for a pleasing affect to the eye.
Round Lidded Box #185
Piece #185 – Spalted Maple – 4″ dia by 5″ – SOLD
The fungus lines in this piece of spalted maple are quite striking. I have several pieces made from this log. (#176, #179, #188) E mail me if you want them all and I will give you a 20% discount.
Lidded Jewelry Box #188
Piece # 188 – Spalted Maple – 9″ dia. by 5″ – SOLD
The fungus lines in this piece of spalted maple are quite striking. I have several pieces made from this log. (#176, #179, #185) E mail me if you want them all and I will give you a 20% discount.
This round jewelery box is made from an old maple log that had been on the ground a long time. Lying in the weather much longer would have made the wood too punky to turn.
Large Oak Pot #182
Piece #182 – OAK – 8″ dia by 8.5″ tall – Sold
Large Magnolia Natural Rim Bowl #181
Piece #181 – Southern Magnolia – 14″ dia by 7″ tall – Sold
Sold this bowl on June 4th at the Lenoir City Arts and Crafts Festival.
This stunning bo
wl is made from a Magnolia Tree that was cut down about three blocks from my home in Knoxville. The power company was trimming trees and this tree was due. However, the owner said “Just cut it down.”
I was passing by in my pickup truck and loaded up on four huge pieces!
Natural Edge Bowl #180
Piece # 180 – Magnolia Tree – 12″ dia. by 3″ deep – SOLD
This natural edge bowl is made from Magnolia tree.
Large Oak Bowl #174
Piece # 174 – Spalted Oak Bowl 12″ dia. by 5.5″ deep – Sold
This oak bowl started out as a freshly cut block of oak from Florida. While it was green and still wet I coated it with my secret recipe. It was wrapped up and left outside under a tarp for about 6 months. I unwrapped it and cleaned it up with Clorox bleach. I let it set under the tarp for 4 more months. I brought it in and turned it last month.
Maple Urn #176
Piece # 176 – Spalted Maple – 7″ dia. by 11″ tall – Sold
The maple for this piece came from my friend Kevin’s back yard. It spalted naturally. I cut it from the crotch in the base of the tree. The striking dark line is the outside edge where the two limbs grew together.
The fungus lines in this piece of spalted maple are quite striking. I have several pieces made from this log. (#179, #185, #188) E mail me if you want them all and I will give you a 20% discount.
Spalted Maple Bowl
Piece # 179 – Spalted Maple – 9.5″ dia. by 4.5″ deep – Sold
This spalted maple came from my friend Kevin’s back yard. It was cut down a year ago and spalted naturally. The dark lines are quite striking.
I have several pieces made from this log. (#176, #185, #188) E mail me if you want them all and I will give you a 20% discount.
Camphor bowl #178
Piece # 178 – Camphor – 12.5″ dia. by 4″ deep – SOLD
This camphor bowl was stained with walnut stain.
Spalted Oak Dish
Piece # 177 – Spalted Oak – 7″ dia. by 2″ deep – SOLD
This small dish is made from a piece of green oak I spalted with my secret recipe. I used a core cutter to remove it from the large spalted oak bowl.