Quina Bowl
Quina has a great red color and a fantastic sweet-spicy scent when cut. I would like to smell it when cut green because I would imagine the fragrance would …
exotic hardwoods
This tag is more general in its application in that it may be applied whenever the wood under discussion for use in turned wood pens or other turnery crafts is a wood native to the tropical regions of the world which could be in South America, Africa, and/or Asia.
Lignum Vitae Bowl
I LOVED working with Argentine Lignum Vitae! This super hard wood cuts so cleanly that attempting to sand it is unnecessary which is a good thing because this wood …
7″ Black Mesquite Bowl
Black Mesquite cuts very cleanly and requires little to no finish sanding which makes it very easy to work with, plus, the grain and figure is wild and unlike …
Jatoba
Jatoba is very dense and quite hard so it cuts slowly. Be patient with it. Jatoba has a very nice color and it cut cleanly along the grain but …
Canarywood Bowl
I have greatly enjoyed working with Canarywood and this single bowl, the blank for which was mixed into a much larger batch of over 100 blanks, proved no exception …
Louro Preto
I was curious to work with Louro Preto since I only had the one piece and have not seen it for sale anywhere since I purchased it many years …
Orange Agate
This piece of wood was sold to me as Orange Agate which I have come to discover is yet another name for Hormigo, about which I have already written …