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Small Southwest Pot Trio • Sep 11, 2010

Here’s a trio of small Southwest style pots that I also did over the summer. They are made of Ash and they have been burned with a basket weave. They are 3 1/4″ high and 3 3/4″ in diameter.

Each of them are shaped and decorated a bit differently, though all are keeping in the Southwest style. They have also been stained and finished with wipe-on poly. They were then brushed with steel wool to give a more satin, pottery-like finish.

Here are some more photos of the individual pots:

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A Large Maple Bowl With Rings • Sep 09, 2010

Here’s a large Maple bowl that I turned over the summer. It is just over 13 1/4″ in diameter and almost 5″ tall, making it the largest bowl that I turned so far. It features three rings around the outside rim.

It is finished with the bee’s wax and mineral oil mixture and then buffed.

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Wine Stoppers 2010 – Part 1 • Sep 02, 2010

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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Birch Salad Bowl With Texturing • Aug 26, 2010

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.

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