Dishes
Articles with this tag discuss small bowl or hollow forms that I refer to as dishes to distinguish them in terms of their smaller size from bowls or vessels.
If one pokes around on some of the wood turning bulletin boards specifically looking for commentary about working with Black Locust, much of the commentary will be unflattering, along …
I often say that every piece of wood is unique and it is a true statement. This very large, at least in my experience, piece of cherry did …
Ultimately, the wood turned out quite nice and achieved a very beautiful natural luster well before I applied any finish at all just through very fine grit sanding down …
I tried something new and finished this piece with walnut oil mixed with a food grade wax. This treatment imparts only a semi-gloss finish at best even after …
This piece also features a good deal of a type of figure that is known as "bird-peck." This is similar in appearance to the more widely known "bird's-eye" …
I have written about Poplar in general in a previous post that happens to focus on the highly colored variant Rainbow Poplar, and while the common names are different …
As might be expected, the Sweet Gum wood was very soft, which meant that it cut extremely easily and quickly but it also, like most all very soft woods, …