Ecologically Sustainable Practices
This tag is applied when the material or process under discussion is either itself an ecologically sustainable practice, such as the use of olive tree limbs removed during yearly trimming instead of using wood gathered by destroying the entire tree or when the use of a wood or material for wood turning pens or other turned items represents a significant threat to the continued health of a ecosystem such as the use of Honduras Mahogany or Myanmar Padauk.
At any rate, if what I worked with really was Butternut, then thanks, no thanks, I would decline to work with it again in the future. The amount of …
This small Cherry bowl measures only ~6" x 2". It does have a bit of swirl in the grain that adds interest and under the right light there …
This small Mulberry bowl is mostly of sentimental value since it was turned from wood sourced from one of two backyard Mulberry trees from my childhood home. I've …
This is a very small dish/cup made from a custom segmented bowl blank created by my Dad, not coincidentally from Black Walnut and Oak, the woods used for making …
This is my first time turning Oregon Myrtle and thus far I am quite pleased. After working with soft woods that don’t cut cleanly it is so nice …
This is an Ambrosia Maple bowl that measures 9″ x 2″. I have written extensively about Maple in the past. Unknown to me until recently, Ambrosia Maple is most …
Red Gum is a soft wood, well technically a hardwood because the tree looses its leaves in winter, but the wood itself is on the soft side of the …