North American Woods
These articles feature woods or other materials that are native to, or which are primarily manufactured in, the continent of North America. Granted that the nations of Central America are geographically North American, due to the more tropical nature of the region, these articles include on those materials and woods that originate in Canada, the United States, and the northern temperate state of Mexico. Woods native to the Caribbean Islands are not frequently encountered in commercial sources at this time due to overharvesting in the past and as such these islands have not been geographically classified for the purposes of this site.
As part of a larger turning project designed to clear an entire shelf of turning wood, I did a small batch of Claro Walnut bowls since the wood happened …
Yesterday I turned a Box Elder bowl, 9" x 3". I have written about Box Elder in the past and it remains not one of my favorite woods. …
I turned a 9" x 3" Sassafras bowl today. I have written about Sassafras in general elsewhere. This blank was a good deal larger than the one I turned …
I turned this good sized, 10″ x 3″ Sycamore bowl this afternoon. It was meant to be 4″ thick but it flew off the lathe twice because of a …
The blanks turned easily enough, even though oven dry Persimmon is among the hardest of the North American woods, which makes sense given that it is in the Ebony …
I’ve written several times in the past about the green turning technique and process, most explicitly in this post. My consensus in the past seems to be that I …
This piece does display some of the blue-grey fungal staining that is almost always present in Holly. I've heard it said that the best time to cut, prepare, and …