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 have described various bowls and the woods they are made from in different posts over time, but this is the first time in which I intentionally describe and …
Having seen what looked like a nifty segmented bowl blank in a catalog, the beginning turner falls victim to marketing and a credit card. The blank, with some …
Once up on a time, I found some agricultural trimmings from an olive orchard waiting to be burned as waste. I rescued some pieces, kept them on a …
Osage Orange is a highly colored native American hardwood that is widely distributed throughout the midwestern United States and beyond. Prized for uses ranging from fence posts to …
Olive wood from the Holy Land/Jerusalem/Bethlehem provides a unique and wonderful material for making turned wood pens, especially for those of the Christian faith because of the deep significance …