Gratitude

Gratitude

(completed Thanksgiving weekend 2013)

13" tall including finial

7.5" diameter

Maple hollow form

Chalk Paint finish

Copper wire finial

Square Dance

Maple bowl with square spirals pyrography

Chalk Paint finish

8" diameter x 3" tall

Basket Illusion Platter

 

Front

 

11" diameter x 2" high

 

Wood - White Limba

 

 

 

 

Back

 

 

 

Detail

 

Inspired by Pima Native American Indian baskets 

 

Reclaimed - the bowl

Start with a thin wall maple bowl

turned green and allowed to dry naturally.

13" diameter x 5-1/2" deep

Julie added the silk yarn wrapping.

She used nearly two skeins.

Yarn source - Darn Good Yarn

The Healing Bowl

Fluted Maple Bowl

7-1/2" diameter

4" deep

Patience

I turned this Ambrosia Maple hollow form

at the John C. Campbell Folk School

in April, 2011.

Last week, Julie painted it.

Wenge and copper finial.

Patience stands 10" tall.

Diameter 5-1/2"

Sold

Mesmerizing

My Michigan Chokecherry Burl mobile 

contains seven levels 

and measures approx. 24" tall 

with a span of approx. 48."  

Completed October 2013.

Link to YouTube video of Mesmerizing

Enigma

 

 

Enigma

 

Thin-wall Box Elder

 

Pierced and painted

 

4" tall

 

4" diameter at top

 

1.25" at base

 

 

 

 

Detail photo

 

Recent Bottlestoppers

Stainless steel stopper with Wenge "finial"

(turned, burned, painted, waxed)

Measures 5" tall.

This piece earned a red ribbon at the 2013 Delta Fair.

Stainless steel stopper made with African Blackwood

and one of my signature "frayed finials."

Measures 9" wide by 9" tall.

This piece earned a white ribbon at the 2013 Delta Fair.

"V-GER"

An Interactive Bottle Stopper

Inspired by Paramount's 1979 movie - Star Trek, The Motion Picture

Stainless steel stopper with ebony

and assorted findings.

Sadly, 

most folks don't seem to "get" this interactive

(magnetic)

bottle stopper.

In the movie, VGER  

(short for Voyager 6)

gathered intelligence and matter during its voyage through the universe,

much as this bottle stopper has gathered unrelated bits and pieces.

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Stoppers created as part of a challenge for members of the

Mid-South Woodturners Guild.

Red Skies at Night

Red Skies at Night

Pair of Sweet Gum hollow vessels 

Chalk Paint finish

Larger vessel measures 10" tall by 6" at widest

Smaller vessel measures 9" tall x 5.5" at widest

Bol Rouge

Bol Rouge 

(translates as Red Bowl)

Silver Maple

turned green and allowed to dry naturally

Wrinkle carved exterior

Stippled rim

Chalk paint finish

Measures 12.5" at widest by 5.5" deep

Late Breaking News

Julie took one of my unfinished 

thin-wall box elder vessels

and turned it into this!

Late Breaking News has a chalk paint interior

and measures 5" across by 5" tall.

She found the newspaper yarn here.

Wonky Pod

Holly hollow form turned green and allowed to distort

Milk paint with wax finish

6-1/2" tall x 7" diameter

Gifted

Timeworn 1 - Before and After

Timeworn I -- After

Before

After

Silver maple turned green and allowed to distort

11-1/2" x 3"

Gifted

Latest Project

 

These were inspired by a catalog photo.

 

My versions were enhanced with woodturning designs.

 

 

 

Milk paint finish.

 

 

 

I added a rare earth magnet to each bottle opener.

 

Quick change feature allows for

showcasing of bottle cap art.

 

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Two carriers have been shared as "host" gifts.

 

They were well received.

Aphrodite

Oak

13.75" H and 6.75" Dia.

The features are spiral pyrography

with a black milk paint finish.

Weed Pot

 

 

Michigan Choke Cherry

 

Turned green and allowed to shape naturally.

 

 

 

7" Tall x 4" Diameter

 

 

Introducing: Timeworn 1 and 2

Timeworn 1

Silver Maple turned green

Natural distortion 

Distressed painted finish

 

Timeworn 2

 

 

Timeworn 1 - Shallow fruit/vegetable bowl

11-1/2" diameter by 3" deep

 

 

Timeworn 2 - Utility bowl

8" diameter x 4" deep



Fluted Cherry Bowl

Fluted Cherry Bowl

Gifted to our daughter-in-law

Perfect for salads, popcorn, pretzels/chips  . . .

Approximately 5" tall with 14" diameter

Hand-rubbed Walnut Oil finish

Pecan Bowl - New Life for Old Wood

In the late 1950s near Pittsburgh,

woodworker Sam Turner 

made a weighty solid-pecan bench.

Over time, the bench moved from 

my grandparents' house to my mother's house.

When she moved from PA to TN, 

the bench came with her.

When she no longer needed the bench,

it came to live at our house.

We have tried  

over, and over, 

and over again

to find 

"just the right spot"

for the bench.

That spot has never been found.

However, the wood in the bench lives on.

This pecan bowl measures 11.25" across by 2.75" deep.

The wide rim measures 1.75"

55 years later, the bench lives on.

Sam T. would be pleased.