Set of 10 Canarywood Bowls
I've used Canarywood for everything from diminutive bowls up to large platters and have always had success. This project was no different. All 10 bowls worked easy peasy lemon …
Wood Lathes
8 Chico Claro Walnut Bowls for Christmas
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 …
Zapote
Geographic Distribution: The wood commonly known as Zapote (Sapodilla is also a very common name for this wood) is known as Manilkara zapota to botanists and other scientists. M. zapota …
Pink Flame
What I can say is that the wood was very dense and very hard and yet, it didn't cut super clean so I had a good bit of strong …
Eight Segmented Dishes
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 …
Burma Padauk
The heartwood of Burma Padauk covers a range from pale golden yellow to deep reddish brown. As is true of other Pterocarpus species, the color will darken over …
Red Mallee
I enjoyed working with the Red Mallee burl. While it was a quite small sample, it cut cleanly with no breakage although, as is common in burl woods, …