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Southwest Style Pot With Pyro

This is a Southwest style pot that I made for my wife for Christmas. It is made of Cherry and it is approximately 10 inches in diameter and 7 inches tall. The lower portion features a ‘swirl’ pattern that was made by using pyrography tools. Both the lower portion, the rim and the inside were [...]

December 29, 2011No CommentRead More

Basket Making With Ursula Johnson

December 4, 2011 No Comment

But basket making is woodworking! I just finished a basketry course with installation artist, Ursula A. Johnson, which was quite fascinating. Not only did I come away with lots of great instruction on how to make a basket but also lots of appreciation for all of the work involved in creating one. I also happily [...]

An Ahmaga Trio

August 8, 2011 No Comment

Here’s a neat set of table decorations that I made over the weekend. They are made out of Cherry and finished with milk paint. After burnishing, the milk paint gave these pieces an almost ceramic look. Yes, they are made out of wood! In fact, these are the first pieces that I have made from [...]

Southwest Spalted Bowl With Brass Inlay

April 28, 2011 No Comment

Here’s another Southwest style bowl that was made from that beautiful spalted Sugar Maple. It had several cracks in the end grain which gave the opportunity to feature some brass inlay. The bowl is 7″ in diameter and just over 3″ tall. The brass used was from key filings. It was finished with tung oil [...]

Cool Cutting Boards With Inlay

April 15, 2011 No Comment

Here’s a new style cutting board that I made based on a cool design I found somewhere on the Internet. It is made of Maple with Walnut accent pieces. The board is approximately 10″ X 14″ X 1 3/4″ thick and made of 10 one inch wide strips. The Walnut is inlayed on both sides [...]

Armoire Style Murphy Wall Bed

April 8, 2011 3 Comments

Here’s a wall bed that my wife and I finished last week. We ramped it up a notch and did it in the style of an armoire to further disguise the fact that it was actually a bed. The necessity for the Murphy wall bed came from the fact that my wife’s mother moved in [...]

Weed Pots From Weed Trees

March 29, 2011 No Comment

Here’s a small example of the seventeen weed pots that my wife and I made from, what we call, weed trees. They make for a very decorative flower arrangement when weeds, or in this case, dried flowers are put in them. We made them for a spring craft show and they were well received. We [...]

Carved And Burnt Maple Bowl

March 2, 2011 No Comment

This is a bowl that I turned for the Nova Woodturners’ Guild Annual Fun Turn. Each year we are given a block of wood for this event, usually 6″ X 6″ X 3″. However, this year the block was 8″X8″X3″. We can turn anything we want. The only criteria is that we have fun. This [...]