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.
This isn’t my first time working with California Pepper as regular readers may recall. As was the case with the first blank, all of these blanks feature checks and …
This piece of Sycamore has the ray flecks that make Sycamore more than just another pale white wood.
Today I finished the last of 5 Box Elder bowls. Box Elder isn't my favorite wood but at least two of these pieces had the vivid red fungal staining …
I recently finished these three Rainbow Poplar bowls, relatively easy to make with such a soft wood as Poplar.
I am back in the shop after a long break, slowly working my way through a stack of over 50 blanks. Today I finished two Bradford Pear pieces. …
This is a small Koa dish that has great reddish brown coloration and nice streaking figure. Koa is one of my favorite woods with which to work
Myrtle is native to the California and Oregon coastal areas. It is a nice hard wood that turns, sands, and finishes quite beautifully.