Walnut & Maple Form with Calcite Inlay #530

Walnut & Maple Form with Calcite Inlay #530

Piece #530 – Walnut Maple & Calcite – 9″ by 5″ SOLD

The pictures here do not do this piece justice. The blue calcite inlay literally screams at you to look. Also, this is not how the piece looked in the concept stage. I made a blunder in the execution stage by completing one step before it was planned. That one mistake changed the whole piece. Sometimes a during construction design change is better than the original idea. In this instance it turned out way better than my original concept. Yea!
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Hackberry & Blue Calcite Inlay Bowl #529

Hackberry & Blue Calcite Inlay Bowl #529

Piece #529 – Hackberry & Calcite – 11″ by 4.5″

 

The Hackberry for this bowl came from Beverly Hills, FL. It had been drying for about seven years in an outdoor storage shed. I paid $20 for the bowl blank because I love Hackberry and had none. When I lived in Georgetown, KY (2014) I was given a whole truckload of beautiful, fresh cut Hackberry. I spent two days cutting it into beautiful, large bowl blanks. I had about 12. I waxed up the ends and put it outside in my storage shed and started counting the months until I could use it. The coming winter was the coldest for that area in recent history. Come spring I went out to check my stock and all of it had cracked beyond use. I guess the moister froze and expanded it. I had to haul it all to the landfill. It was a sad day.

Roger Scott
Woodpops

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