Yep, it’s that time again… time to make some more wine bottle stoppers. Here’s a dozen of them that I recently turned.

They are all made in the ‘flame’ style from a variety of wood including Red Palm, Spalted Maple, Pau Amarillo, Pau Rosa, Zebrawood, Purpleheart, Cocobolo and Cherry.

Here’s some other photos showing a bit closer views starting with this one that shows, from left to right, Spalted Maple, Red Palm, Cocobolo and Zebrawood:

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Here’s a Birch bowl that features a band of texturing around its middle. It is 10″ in diameter and 4″ high and finished with my mineral oil and beeswax mixture.

The texturing really adds to the color and wild grain of this particular piece of the Birch. It has quickly become a favorite and is now in regular use as our prime salad bowl.

Here are some more photos:

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The weather has been so nice here lately that I decided to move the small lathe outside to take advantage of it.

Yeah, you’re right, I have been doing a lot of turning lately.

Back to the shop…

And here’s some more of the small Maple tea lights done in the Peyoke style. Like the previous ones they are about 2 1/2″ in diameter and 2″ tall and again, each have a different design and burnings.

As you can likely see, these tealights, along with the ones posted earlier, have led to designs that I used in the larger bowls. For example, the tea light shown here with the notched edge was used on the Peyoke Bowl With A Notched Rim.

I found these candle holders a great way to work out ideas in design and style on a small scale. They allow this to be done quickly and inexpensive in both material and time. Once completed they also make a great gift or small sale item.

Here’s some photos of each individual candle holder:

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