Walnut
This year I decided to use Claro Walnut that was actually sourced from Chico, California, where my sister lives and works. I thought that would make a special connection …
The easiest by far was the blank with the random mix of what I am mostly certain were domestic woods. The most difficult were the three featuring Purpleheart which …
The blank was originally 13" wide but the distortions of drying robbed it of the missing 0.5". Black Walnut is a good turning wood but it doesn't compare to …
At any rate, if what I worked with really was Butternut, then thanks, no thanks, I would decline to work with it again in the future. The amount of …
I made three bowls this day and I chose to end with the Claro Walnut because I knew it would be the most joyous to turn. I wasn't wrong.
This is a very small dish/cup made from a custom segmented bowl blank created by my Dad, not coincidentally from Black Walnut and Oak, the woods used for making …
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 …