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X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 10:08 AM Oct 2019

Spring / Summer 2019 turning projects

Here are a few more things I've been doing in the shop..

This is a shallow plate made from London Plane (a hybrid of plane and sycamore).


This is a small garlic press with mesquite handles.


This is probably the last walnut bowl I'll turn. I've become sensitized to it, and it sets my allergies off.


I made my wife a replacement wedding ring from crushed opal and tungsten.


This is a travel mug I made from bradford pear.


This is a neat little gadget. It's a soda can opener made from osage orange (bois d'ark).


I made these measuring spoons from spalted sycamore that I'd dye stabilized.


I really love bradford pear. Such a lovely color.


Something for the dogs to chase, a laser pointer in dyed curly maple.


A friend of mine is a hiker, this fire starter should be useful. Sycamore is the wood.


Another bottle opener, this time in pecan.


This bowl started out as a dough bowl, with very thick walls. My wife started making bigger loaves, so it wasn't needed. I carved the walls down to be scalloped.




This ring is from green acrylic over a stainless steel core.


This was an experiment. I inlaid shell fragments in a shallow trough in the bowl's rim, and then filled with epoxy resin.

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Spring / Summer 2019 turning projects (Original Post) X_Digger Oct 2019 OP
Lovely and useful artistry! Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #1
Thanks! X_Digger Oct 2019 #9
Beautiful work. 5X Oct 2019 #2
I use as much local wood as I can. X_Digger Oct 2019 #10
Absolutely breathtaking! femmocrat Oct 2019 #3
Nice! KPN Oct 2019 #4
Beautiful! Maraya1969 Oct 2019 #5
Your skill and vision are impressive. Thank you for posting! Shrike47 Oct 2019 #6
Love it! Bayard Oct 2019 #7
Thanks! I don't sell, no. My co-workers, friends, and family usually get the results of my work. X_Digger Oct 2019 #11
I am your friend! Bayard Oct 2019 #12
Wow! So many beautiful things. Skinner Oct 2019 #8
Your work is stunning, and I am very jealous. Dem2theMax Oct 2019 #13
I'm so sorry to hear that! If it were a matter of access, I know a lot of the regional chapters of.. X_Digger Oct 2019 #16
I had no idea there was such a thing! Dem2theMax Oct 2019 #17
Our local club has a woman VP at the moment. X_Digger Oct 2019 #18
Bookmarked! Dem2theMax Oct 2019 #19
Genius!!! Thanks for sharing...show us next year's produce!❤ Karadeniz Oct 2019 #14
Wow! They're all beautiful! CaptainTruth Oct 2019 #15
You are a master. sinkingfeeling Oct 2019 #20
Gorgeous work! csziggy Oct 2019 #21
Thanks! Yeah, I'm bummed about walnut, but I'd rather not take any chances. X_Digger Nov 2019 #23
Wonderful Work. Grey Oct 2019 #22
In case you're still doing this... electric_blue68 Nov 2020 #24

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
10. I use as much local wood as I can.
Reply to 5X (Reply #2)
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 11:12 AM
Oct 2019

I watch facebook marketplace and craigslist for free wood, and I drive around the neighborhood looking for wood piled up on the curb.

I hate seeing such lovely wood go to the landfill.

Of those above, the bradford pear, cherry, mesquite, walnut, maple, pecan, and osage orange were all curb finds.

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
11. Thanks! I don't sell, no. My co-workers, friends, and family usually get the results of my work.
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 11:17 AM
Oct 2019

The wife has a moratorium on bringing in any more bowls to the house.

Dem2theMax

(9,595 posts)
13. Your work is stunning, and I am very jealous.
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 01:42 PM
Oct 2019

For most of my adult life I have dreamed of working with wood, but don't have the room for the tools, and I don't have anyone to teach me. And now I have some really serious arthritis in my hands, so it's pretty much out of the question at this point.

So I will sit here and drool over your work. And wish that you did sell it!

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
16. I'm so sorry to hear that! If it were a matter of access, I know a lot of the regional chapters of..
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 03:53 PM
Oct 2019

.. the AAW (American Association of Woodturners) have open shop days where you can try out turning on their equipment.

It's not something that requires a lot of hand *strength* but it does require a decent amount of hand *control*.

Dem2theMax

(9,595 posts)
17. I had no idea there was such a thing!
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 04:04 PM
Oct 2019

I'm a woman, and I don't traditionally see a lot of women wanting to do stuff like this. But as I got older, I absolutely fell in love with the kind of work that you are doing. I've kept copies of pictures I have seen over the years of incredible woodwork.

I definitely don't have hand strength anymore, control is a bit iffy. But I would love to at least go and see one of these places. I will p.m. you my location and maybe you can come up with something that is somewhat close to me.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
21. Gorgeous work!
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 08:50 PM
Oct 2019

Sorry to hear about your black walnut allergy. I was going to ask what part of the world you're in. I have a smallish black walnut tree that blew over in a hurricane a couple of years ago. It's still alive but I have not been able to find a crafts person who would use the wood. I had the husband of a friend kind of interested, but she's passed away and I no longer have contact with him.

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)
23. Thanks! Yeah, I'm bummed about walnut, but I'd rather not take any chances.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 03:51 PM
Nov 2019

At least not before I have an epi-pen on hand.

electric_blue68

(14,609 posts)
24. In case you're still doing this...
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 06:08 PM
Nov 2020

wonderful work!

The Bradford pear bowl, the wedding ring!
Like the broken shells on the wooden bowl rim.

The pecan handle - lovely wood.

I loved the metal shop and wood shop at my Art College decades back.
I can't believe though after seeing some wood turning on my FB page that I never looked for a lathe in the woodshop back then!

Hopefully you show us this year's work.

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