Wooden Bowl Blanks
I am back in the shop after a long break, slowly working my way through a stack of over 50 blanks. Today I finished two Bradford Pear pieces. …
This is a small Koa dish that has great reddish brown coloration and nice streaking figure. Koa is one of my favorite woods with which to work
Myrtle is native to the California and Oregon coastal areas. It is a nice hard wood that turns, sands, and finishes quite beautifully.
Willow is a very soft wood that really isn't well suited to turning since it cuts rough and fuzzy although that does sand out easily.
Hackberry is a soft wood that is very prone to spalting heavily and I think this is the first time I have worked with Hackberry that was kiln dried …
This 7" x 2.5" Hickory bowl is the first in a new series of blanks that were prepped by Dad in Porterville. There was a tall Red Oak …
Geographic Distribution: The wood commonly known as Pink Ivory is known to botanists and other scientists as Berchemia zeyheri. B. zeyheri grows predominantly in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Northern Botswana and South Africa. …