I am starting to turn some green wood I brought back from Tasmania. It has its challenges as I learn about shrinkage, warping, turning green wood and then turning lopsided, dried wood. So much to figure out! I've got a lot of material to learn on, though!
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| This was a spectacular piece of quilted, Tasmanian myrtle. I shaved off a thin piece before I started to use as box tops on my next boxes. It's not quite round which made finishing it pretty hard. I should have left thicker side walls. 8 1/2 inches across. | This was from a large piece of eucalypt burl from Tasmania. It was interesting from a size point of view and because of some holes that weakened the already thin walls. It's about 10 1/2 inches in diameter. |
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| Another eucalypt burl bowl. This one is nine inches across and four inches deep. | This 3 1/2 inch bowl was cut from the center of the bowl to the left. |
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| I cut this small bowl - 5 inches across - from the inside of the quilted myrtle bowl above. | Here's the bottom. I'm working on the bottoms more these days, trying to get rid of the evidence of chucking. |
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| An seven inch bowl of Tasmanian Eucalypt | A larger, nine inch bowl, also Eucalypt from Tassie |
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| Five inch Huon pine bowl. This piece of wood is likely two thousand years old! | A ten inch Eucalypt bowl. I started to flatten the bottom and decided I liked the detail, so I kept it! |
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| Here's a mallee burl from Queensland. This is some really heavy and very hard wood. I was worn out by the time I finished turning this! | A piece of madrone from the west coast of the US. this one has a bit of figure to it. |
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| An 11 1/4 inch bowl in Tasmanian Eucalypt Burl, biggest one I've turned to date. | This one is six inches, again, Eucalypt burl from Tassy. It's an attempt on my part to sneak up on the enclosed form. One of these days I'll get the opening down a lot smaller, but for now I'm happy to approach it slowly. |
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| This bowl is 7 1/2 inches in diameter. I cut another bowl from the center of the blank and the bottom on this one tore, so I cut it out and patched in a piece of Tasmanian Blackwood in the Eucalypt burl. | |