Here is a plate that I turned out of a piece of Curly Ash. It was a real treat to see the curl appear as it was turned. This was doubled by the fact that I had never heard of curling in Ash. Here you can see the curl running across the lower bowl of the plate:

The plate measures 7″ diameter and it is about 3/4″ tall with an 1/8″ rim. It was finished with EEE Cream and Shellawax.

This was the first plate that I turned and I’m quite pleased with it.

Here are some photos of different views:

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Here’s a small bowl that I turned recently out of Birch. I found that it turned and finished up very nice and the grain contrast showed through very well.

It features an inner rim which gives it a bit of a different look and the corresponding sloped side accents it.

It is approximately 6.5″ in diameter and 1 3/4″ tall. It is finished with EEE Cream and Shellawax.

Here are a few more photos from different angles:

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After a long summer hiatus the Nova Woodturner’s Guild met for the first meeting of our fourteenth season last night. And what a great meeting it was! There were awards given out, a fantastic show and tell and bowl making and spindle turning demos and instruction.

There were over 40 members in attendance for this meeting at the carpentry room of the Nova Scotia Community College, Leed Street campus.

The evening started with Appreciation and Recognition Awards. These were given out to people who have supported the club over the years.

Here is Stephen Zwerling receiving his Award of Appreciation, presented by club president Bill Luther and Don Moore:

Here’s John Macnab receiving his Award of Appreciation:

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I lucked into a wonderful windfall of wood recently! A woodturning friend of mine decided to retire and was emptying out his wood shop and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

For a token amount I was able to pick up a couple of hundred bowl blanks, burls and slabs of Maple, Birch and Ash. Quite a few of them have great features such as fiddleback, curl and birdseye. There is also some spalted varieties in the mix. The bulk of the blanks are Ash.

Most of the wood has been drying since 1992 with the newest having been drying since 2002!

I was also lucky enough to pick up about 100 board feet or more of curly, birdseye and fiddleback maple boards and some 200 year old walnut boards, plus three Ash and Birch laminated table tops. The 200 year old Walnut was saved from an old downtown home demolition at one time. I acquired two 8 foot long banisters which will have to be milled and some that has already been milled.

Here are some photos of this bigga-load-a-wood (Warning! Drool plays havoc on keyboards! LOL!):

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