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Walnut bowl measuring 3.5” tall and 7.5” wide. Textured the exterior so that it actually feels like a leather football. The inside is smooth and shiny.

This antique looking pot is really textured and dyed Mesquite. 4”tall and 6.25” wide.

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Three projects for this week. An essential oil diffuser made from figured Poplar in a 3-cornered bowl. Just add a few drops on the ball and the air is full of pleasant fragrance (peppermint just now). A friend had to take down a large Sassafras tree in his yard, so after helping him cut the tree down and sawing it up into manageable pieces I brought a bit home. Cookies made from the hollow trunk were filled with an epoxy resin and finished with a Danish oil. I drilled a hole in one for a glass flower tube. A small bowl was also made from this tree. My friend will be taking these back home this weekend.

This little hollow form is from a small Redbud burl. It measures 3” tall and 2.75” wide. Finished with a tung oil based Danish oil then waxed.

I am very pleased with how my Redbud Burl turned out. Probably the most beautiful native wood, from Texas, that I have ever turned. So many colors and textures. Measures 3” tall and 7” wide.

It is rare that I purchase exotic pieces of wood for my projects as I prefer to collect native wood species, however, when I came across this burl of Australian Redwood I couldn’t resist. The Burl itself is worthy of display even without being mounted on a lathe. So I decided to leave a great portion of the wood untouched and only turned enough of a bowl to expose the interior of this gorgeous wood. It measures 11” wide and 3” tall. The bowl is finished in Danish oil but the rough burl remains natural.

I cut down a Redbud tree on my friend’s property as it was dying and encroaching on a fence. This natural edge bowl was turned from a crotch or fork in the main tree trunk. It measures 4.5” tall and 8” wide. There was also a burl on this tree that will be featured in another posting, if it turns out well.

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Banksia seed pod candlestick. It started out as a goblet but my daughter suggested a candlestick would be better.

Flaming Box Elder bowl measures 5” tall by 6.25” wide. The wood came from a stump in my brother-in-law’s yard in North Carolina.