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.
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.
Willow is a very soft wood that really isn't well suited to turning since it cuts rough and fuzzy although that does sand out easily.
Hackberry is a soft wood that is very prone to spalting heavily and I think this is the first time I have worked with Hackberry that was kiln dried …
This 7" x 2.5" Hickory bowl is the first in a new series of blanks that were prepped by Dad in Porterville. There was a tall Red Oak …
This is one of my larger pieces in terms of depth although certainly not in terms of diameter. The “tulip” refers to the shape of the flowers on the …