Show-N-Tell

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Wood Artists

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Doug Diggles
Spectryply Sculptures

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Ed Figueroa
Multi-Axis Bud Vase

Spice Wells

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Douglas Diggles
Icons - More to come on these!

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Brad Campana
Stoppers
Maple Burl and Buckeye Burl Hybrid bottle stoppers.
Finished with walnut oil.

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Jerry Philipp
Walnut Urn
The wood is from the Hanford walnut harvest with an olive insert knob on the lid. Myland’s Friction polish finish.

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Ed Figueroa
Chinese Tallow Wood Bowls
Bowls 7 3/4” x  5” & 7 3/4” x 4 1/2”
Finish - WOP

Christmas (inside/out) light, body is Walnut with Pecan wood top
Finish - Spray Polyurethane

2- Christmas (inside/out) ornaments made of Alder & Cherry wood
Finish - Spray Polyurethane

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Gary Rose
Bowl in a Log
I got this piece of ironwood from Perry Coy. A pretty rough piece, but interesting and challenging.  The dimensions are 14-1/2" by 12" by 2" thick. Lots of epoxy and CA glue was required.  The finish is 4 coats of Deft satin lacquer followed by wax.

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Brad Campana
Ash Flowers
Approx. 2.5" long, stems are wooden skewers
Finish - BLO

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Perry Coy
Bottle Brush Bowl

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Gary Rose
Shaving Mug
Red and white streaked alabaster from Colorado.  Made this shaving mug for my grandson. The mug is 5" tall and 3-1/2" in diameter. I turned it about 1/8" thick, which lets it show a beautiful translucence when the light shines through it. Turning it that thin was a bit terrifying for fear of shattering it, getting injured and worst of all, losing about 35 bucks!  Used mostly carbide tools.  Finished it with shellac, then lacquer and finally, wax.

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Gordon Miller
Olive Winged Bowl
Piece is 16" long - Bowl is 8"
Finished in WOP and polished.

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Mark Dillon
My version of a winged bowl. I made a lid for it, turning it into a winged box. Bowl is black walnut 12-1/2" x 3-1/4" x 3-1/4". Lid is Black Locust Burl. Finish is Danish Oil.

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Craig Miller
Hollow Forms Galore! Most of the pieces are California Pepper, with a burl and other woods in there. Projects are 6" to 8" in diameter and finished in high gloss lacquer.

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Perry Coy
January of 2021 harvested many wood blanks out of Kings County. Here are a few of the 40 that I have in various stages of completion. Finished with WOP and buffed.

Small scraps of carob and walnut for small projects.

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Mark Dillon
Ash Closed Form with Pyrography Embellishments
This project changed substantially from my original vision. A small crack was uncovered and while chasing it the design evolved to this. Finished with multiple coats of Tung Oil and wax.
4" mouth x 8" base x 6" high

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Jerry Philipps
My first go at making a clock using inserts. I used some scrap pieces of wood to make the clocks. Clock inserts were placed in a turned piece of wood to accommodate the insert. The walnut clock is a 3.5 inch (90 mm) insert and the olive wood clocks are 1.5 inch (37 mm) inserts. The photo on the lathe shows how I turned the case for the clock insert. I turned the round case for the clock and removed it from the base pedestal for mounting. Mylands friction polish finish. I ordered the clock inserts from Amazon, $9.49/clock.

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Mark Dillon
Black Walnut Yarn Bowl

Pistachio Vase
9-1/2"x 4"

 

Black Walnut 12" Salad Bowl

 

Ash and Claro Walnut Mallet with Oval handle
This project was from a webinar I viewed out of Australia.

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Jerry Philipp

Wood is walnut for the vota and vase. Pear for the rough edge vota candle. Do not recall what the wood is for the pepper mill. All have Mylands friction polish finish.

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Jerry Philipp
Walnut Box

This was another microwaving of wood test. Note the difference in color in the walnut, the lid is a richer color than the bottom. This was one blank when I started with a moisture of about 28%. I rough turned a box. The bottom was hollowed out to about 3/8” sides with a 1” thick base, 4” tall.  The lid/top was about 1.5” thick x 3”. I microwaved both pieces together in a plastic bag for 1 minute each time. I did this three times per day over a three day period.

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Jon Grace
Acrylic Pizza Cutter Handle

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Mark Dillon
Walnut Bowl
A test piece - drying by microwaving. Harvested on Jan. 1, 2021
Dried to 5% moisture and turned. Finished with tung oil, waxed and buffed. Size 8" x 4".

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Mark Dillon
Large Manzanita Twig Pots
12" and 8" , Finished with tung oil , waxed and buffed

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Jerry Philipp
Olive box with stone inlay and a cedar platter.
Myland friction polish on both as a finish.

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Mark Dillon
Hollow Form w/lid & Finial
Wood- Black Walnut / Black Locust Burl
Finish- Tung Oil/ Wax
Size- 11" x 11" (w/finial)

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Mark Dillon
Bottle Stoppers
Wood Used - Spalted Ash
Finish - CA / Wax

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Heather Yoneda
Bottle Stoppers/Kitchen Ware
Wood Used - Birdseye Maple, Cocobolo, Zebrawood and Bocote.
Finish - Lacquer and Mahoneys Wax

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Jeremy Edwards
Coasters

Olive wood rough cut on one side, smooth cut on opposing sides and natural bark on the 4th side. Two part epoxy with purple, ocean blue, lime green with glow in the dark powder. Epoxy in a 4" PVC pipe, then put it in the pressure pot for 24 hours. Pulled out the log of olive wood and epoxy and mounted on the lathe with a face plate and turned into disc slices. Sanded to 12,000 grit and finished with a polish.

Front and Back Lit -

Back Lit -

Stacked -

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Gordon Miller
A natural edge bowl from a recent walnut orchard harvest. Turned green to 3/8 inch. Dried in Microwave, sanded ,finished with Deft. Measures 10 by 9 inches.

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Mark Dillon
A couple of cherry bowls.
Finish - Tung Oil / Waxed and Buffed

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Perry Coy
A gift of an unknown wood type rendered this.
Finish - Polyurethane, then waxed and buff.

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Danny Shamoon
These are kiln dried 12” Ambrosia Maple blanks from GOT WOOD, www.turneringblanks.net

The pepper grinder is approximately 10 ½” tall and the salt grinder is approximately 8 ½” tall. They were finished with Doctors Walnut Oil and polished using MYLANDS Friction Polish.

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Danny Shamoon
The blanks were purchased direct from Cousinau Wood Products in Maine USA.
Website -  https://www.cwp-usa.com/

From Left to Right:
Firestorm, Crossbones, Buckskin, and Emberglow

The grinder kits were from Woodcraft for salt and pepper. The blanks started at 12”, the bodies were all about 7- 8” and the tops varied 2 ½ to 3 ½ “ The reason I used the grinder from Woodcraft is their kits come with 4 different length shafts. 6,8,10 12” So you can make the height whatever you want. I decided to do tall. I think the next set I do will be half that, 5-6” tall. The thing is the measurement doesn’t need to be exact. If needed the shaft can be trimmed. They grind and work well.

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David Bryant
Rolling pins - large French rolling pin of laminated maple and walnut, the small ones are one hand units for cookies or dumplings or raviolis, made from limbs from an ancient olive tree in our back yard. Couldn’t make anything bigger from the pieces. Picture doesn’t do the grain justice.

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Gary Rose
Persimmon Candle Sticks
I must say that it is a very unique and eye-catching project.  The wood is an interesting gray color and the worm holes add a lot of character.

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Perry Coy
Black Walnut Yo-Yo

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Mark Dillon
Scoops - Ash, Pistachio and Black Walnut

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Mark Dillon
Received freshly cut green oak burl. I rough turned it, sacked for 5 months, removed from sack and air dried for another 5 months. Stabilized piece with thin CA, lots of it. Finish turned to 14" x 6-1/2" x 5/8". Multiple applications of tung oil w/ steel wool between. Waxed and hand buffed.

 

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Pete Coburn
Keeping busy, load the cannon with the popper. Pull the string and pop, out comes the stringers.  Came from Axminster Tools, YouTube, one month ago. Lots of fun

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Heather Yoneda
Coffee Scoops
Finish Mahoney Walnut Oil then Walnut Wax

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Gordon Miller
13 by 5 inch Elm Bowl. Walnut Oil and Lemon Oil Finish

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Heather Yoneda
First Project - Knife Handle

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Jerry Philipp
Olive wood with a stone inlay on the lid knob

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Mark Dillon
Twice Turned and Boiled Spalted Ash - 12" x 5-1/2"
Finish - One coat of Tung Oil then waxed and buffed

 

Carob 10" x 5"
Finish - One coat of Tung Oil then waxed and buffed

Carob 7-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Played with a little pyrography to hide an outside crack
Finish - One coat of Tung Oil then waxed and buffed

 

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Gordon Miller
12 by 6 inch bowl turned from Oak finished with 2 coats of WOP then polished with Carnauba Wax

 

 

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Gary Rose
Both bowls are made out of Claro walnut.  

One bowl is inlayed with turquoise, finished with Deft semi-gloss lacquer and given a coat of lemon-wax. The bowl is 15-1/2" by 4".  

The darker bowl had numerous voids which were filled with black pigmented epoxy resin. This bowl presented some challenges that I think helped me become a more careful, exacting, (if not any better) woodturner.  Finish is satin Varathane with a final coat of lemon-wax.  Dimensions are 15-1/2" x 5".

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Mark Dillon
Manzanita Twig Pots
Finish - Deft Gloss

Pistachio Bowls - 2 Projects 8"
Finish - Tung Oil then waxed and buffed

My wife loves flowers so I turned her a 4", 6" & 8" trio of ash twig pots and stuck a yard flower in each one. Put a smile on her face. I added a burn to the edge of each pot by increasing the lathe speed and pressing steel wool on the rim.

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Gary Rose
Claro Walnut Lamp Base

I received this piece of wood as a challenge, which it was!  I had to fill numerous large voids with black pigmented epoxy.  I first finished with Varathane semi-gloss polyurethane.  I changed the finish on the lamp from semi-gloss to satin.  I was getting too much reflection, which obscured the grain.  The wood has some gnarly/beautiful grain, which shows to much more advantage now.

Sycamore bowl
13" x  4"
Finished with semi-gloss Deft lacquer

Lidded box
4" by 2-1/2"
Olive with a birdseye maple lid.  Lid stained with Minwax Special Walnut and all finished with Varathane semi-gloss polyurethane.

 

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Murray Wilson
Alder from a landscape tree
Finish - WOP

 

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Gordon Miller
8" Fir Bowl w/ Odie's Finish

English Walnut 11" x 5"
Finish - WOP

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David Bryant
Cocobolo Shaving Soap Mug

I use a shaving brush and soap, (when my wife tells me I need to shave!).  I had an old block of cocobolo that I wanted to *turn* in to a shaving soap mug.  A while ago I made a really nice cocobolo handle for a badger brush I ordered online, but I gave it to my brother and I have no picture.  Cocobolo is good for this kind of application because of its natural oily qualities, I understand.  Once I started turning the block, I could see the wood was really poor quality.  It was rotten, cracked, kind of flaky in pieces, but nevertheless, I persisted.  I very carefully used a big forstner bit for the interior, and gradually worked to the final shape.  Notice the top edge; since it was rotten I just sanded down in places to get to marginally solid wood.  Once I got the shape, it was clear that it wouldn’t hold together very well, so I applied several thin coats of two part epoxy, letting it dry, and sanding in between.  Because of the oil, I wiped it down thoroughly with mineral spirits before applying the epoxy.  I made a jam chuck for sanding the outside.  I just kind of horsed it to its final shape, and it’s challenged cosmetically, but it works great.  

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Gary Rose
Various candlesticks made from an old redwood fence post and green ash branches, some for tapers and some for pillar candles.

The bowl is pistachio, is 11" x 4", finished in mineral oil and beeswax. 

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Gordon Miller
11" Pistachio Platter Odie's Finish

11" x 3" Chinese Tallow Bowl
Finish - WOP

12" Basket Weave Platter

 

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Steve Bridges
Mills - English Walnut & Black Walnut

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George & Flo Corder
Honey Jars w/ Dippers in Lids
Various Woods - Black Walnut, Carob, Pear & Pistachio

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Perry Coy
Sugar Pine Firewood Rescue w/ Blue Stain Spalting
9-1/2" x 2-1/2" ,  Finish - WOP & Wax

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Gary Rose
Monastery dining table and bench - Table top is 9' long and 43" wide, made of cherry with six turned legs, massive and a little intimidating. The finish is Minwax Provincial Stain and 4 coats of Deft Satin Laquer. The most difficult aspect for me was creating the pommels at each end of each leg.  I've seen Richard Raffan and Alan Lacer create these  quickly and beautifully.  My experience was a bit different, they ultimately turned out fine but I now believe that 60 grit sandpaper may be man's best friend.

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Mark Dillon
A couple of firsts here... First hollow form, first multiple colored stain finish. Wood is ash, turned green, dried and distorted in a paper sack. Sanded to 400, then surface embellishments to the top with pyrography. Jimmy Clews inspired style of finish using red and yellow Transtint Dye mixed and applied in denatured alcohol, then 5 coats of WOP.
9" x 6" - Inside unfinished.

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Jerry Philipp
The walnut bowl blanks had deep cracks and crevices in them. I mixed resin (with golden flakes) and filled the cracks and crevices in order to turn a bowl from these blanks. Note the translucent area in the bowl.  Mylands friction polish finish.

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Steve Bridges
Myrtle Wood Burl

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Mark Dillon
Large Carob Wood Bowl with epoxy fills
(Thank You Perry for the Wood Call on Carob)
(Thank You Jeremy Edwards for the advice on epoxy fills)
14" x 7-1/2"
Finish - Several coats WOP

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Gordon Miller - Three Projects
9 inch Myrtle bowl, Odie’s finish

12"Myrtle Platter Odie's Finish

Crushed Opal Rings

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Murray Wilson
Repurposed Piano Wood and Parts

The top back of the piano that holds the harp and string pins. Those are the pins back in the holes they came from. I gave it to a friend who is a piano playing pastor. Life after death is the name of the piece. It's odd I know, just something that came to me.

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Mark Dillon w/ A Twice Turned Experiment
Spalted Ash - 14" x 6"
Finish - Tung Oil

Rough turned, boiled, sacked wet. This Ash project being somewhat plain figured, I like the fact that spalting occured. Dried for 6 months before I returned to it. Finish turned and uncovered a crack. Used a Biscuit Jointer to cut perpendicular slots across crack. (Thank You Howard Atamian for the idea.) Templete made to form biscuits, scrap Zebrawood used here. Used a texture tool on the rim and foot. I like what the spalting did to the foot, wished the rest of the piece was as densely colored.

Perry Coy
Small Carob Box
Finish - 2 coats WOP , waxed and buffed
1-7/8" x 2-1/2"

Small Carob Box
Finish - 2 coats WOP , waxed and buffed
1-3/4" x 2"

Small Carob Box
Finish - 2 coats WOP , waxed and buffed
2-3/4" x 1-1/2"

 

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Mark Dillon
Over the past two months I have been staying close to home and spending quality time in the shop. I dove into my stock of dried bowl blanks and this is some of what I came up with...

Claro Walnut Burl
12"x6" finish WOP

Claro Walnut Burl
9"x5" finish WOP

Claro Walnut
13"x2" Finish WOP

11"x4"

14" x 3"

Ash Bowl 15" x 3-1/2" finish WOP

Claro Walnut Nested Set
Cored from Same Blank - finish Deft Gloss
Lg- 13" x 4" , Med- 10" x 3", Sm- 7-1/2" x 2"
Large Bowl has colored epoxy fills

 

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Steve Bridges
Mesquite Bowl 6"

English Walnut Bowl 9"

Pistachio Candle Holders

Pistachio Pepper Mill

 

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Jerry Philipp
An olive box with a stone inlay on top

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Gary Rose
This is one of four cherry table legs that I've turned for a 9 foot long monastery dining table that I'm building.  The leg is 29" tall and each blank weighs about 30 pounds.  To put it into technical woodturning terms;  these babies feel like they are life-threatening and are a booger to turn just because of their intimidating size and weight!

The large bowl is 14" in diameter, turned from an ancient oak tree from a ranch in Riverdale.  The tree was dying (hence some interesting white streaks) and was about 5 feet in diameter.  

Four bowls are:  6" mulberry, 3-1/2" pistachio inlaid with turquoise, 6" sycamore and 4-1/2" ash.  Most of the bowls I turn are utilitarian, not arty.  All have food-safe finishes.

 

 

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Gordon Miller
13 inch shallow bowl turned from Chinese Tallow
Finish - Salad Bowl Finish

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Micky Loy & Perry Coy
Carob Wood Vase 3"x11"

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Gordon Miller (Three Projects)
12" Pepper Grinder turned from 50 year old redwood fence post
Deft Finish

10" x 4" Pistachio Bowl
Finish - Odie's

Carob Bowl
8" x 4" w/ Walnut Oil Finish

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Craig Gough
Segmented Corona Virus
I decided that given the current situation I'd do something socially responsible and cage the coronavirus.  

The virus itself is a segmented sphere 19" in diameter made from redwood 2x4's & 2x6's and textured with a wire wheel after it was turned and rough sanded. The final thickness of the hollow sphere is approx. 5/8" thick weighing 10 to 15 pounds. The spines are 2 sizes of shaker pegs I ordered (even I'm not dedicated enough to turn that many pegs). The coloring is water based leather dye with a water based spar urethane topcoat. 

The cage is 6.5' tall overall including the legs - the dimensions of the cage section are 3'x3'x3'. It's constructed out of redwood 4x4's and 2x4's joined with lots of Kreg pocket holes. The tie plates are semi functional, but mostly decorative. The bars are .5" copper pipe discolored with liver of sulfur. 

It's currently being displayed in the driveway on the east side of our house if anybody feels like going for a drive. I'm thinking I'd like to find someplace interested in displaying it, but haven't come up with anything since most of the world's still closed. Let me know if anyone has any good ideas for places that might be interested.

 

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Mark Dillon & Son
Restoring a Santa Maria BBQ
And turning a needed part.

The Before (And yes those are cows in the background)

 

The After.

And what was turned...

 

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Gordon Miller
Wooden Mushrooms
Large one turned from Bradford Pear, small one from Olive.
Finished with Walnut Oil.

 

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Ed Figueroa
Decorative Wooden Spheres
Front: Poplar and Pistachio
Back: Camphor and Black Walnut
Finish: Polyurethane

Rustic Stump Bottle
Pistachio Wood finished w/ Tung Oil

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Gary Rose
Candle Sticks

I've been turning a run of candlesticks this past week, some of which are shown here.  The material consists of old fence posts, green tree limbs from the neighborhood and other miscellaneous wood that I had on hand.  Seems like folks prefer the rustic looking ones to the more customary styles.  They are relatively quick to turn, are fun to make and sell well.  As a finish, I spray them with four coats of semi-gloss lacquer and finally rub  on a coat of Johnson's paste wax.

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M.Dillon
Pistachio Natural Edge Bowl
13"x10"x6"
Finish - WOP

Spalted Ash
10"x6"
Finish - WOP

Bradford Pear
12"x3.5"
Finish - WOP

Ash Twig/Weed Pots
8", 6" & 4" tall
Finish - Natural

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Jerry Philipp
Good time killers and practice
Carob Box

 

Maple Bowl

The carob box is wood from the carob wood grab at Perry’s house and the maple wood bowl is from a piece Gordon Miller gave me.
Thanks to both for the wood.

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Gordon Miller (5 Projects)
Mesquite bowl on the left, natural edge on the right.
Finish- Odie's Oil

Norfolk Island Pine
Finish- Deft

17 Inch Myrtle Pepper Grinder
Finish- Lacquer

Walnut Burl
Mahoney's Walnut Oil

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David Bryant
Natural Edge Claro Walnut Bowl

Here's another small walnut bowl I made from the harvested stash a couple years old.  It's a variation on the natural edge bowls we see - in this case the natural edge was left by the chain saw.  It was mostly a straight cut so I worked from there to find the bowl underneath.  Finished with several coats of wipe on poly.  Not generally my favorite finish but I haven't gone to the hardware store to get more rattle can lacquer.

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Mark Dillon
Knife Block

I know this is a bit of a stretch but I use my lathe for more than just spinning wood, I spin sandpaper on it too. This 16" sanding disk was originally made for segmenting projects but have found it valuable for other areas of woodcraft. Over the years our kitchen knife collection had expanded beyond the capacity of the original knife block. The new block has twice the capacity of the old. The disk sander was used to square up the end-grain faces of the block.The project was made from red oak, laminated with Titebond type III and was finished with multiple coats of lacquer. Four small rubber stick-on buttons were placed under the block to keep it from sliding and away from countertop moisture.

 

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Mark Dillon
Sake Bottle Weed Pot

A sake bottle shaped weed pot made from claro walnut, finished with multiple coats of Wipe-On-Poly.

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Gordon Miller
Pepper Grinder

12 inch Pepper Grinder turned from Pistachio. Finished with Deft.

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Jerry Philipp - 4 projects
Walnut Pedestal Platter & Bowls

Walnut pedestal platter and bowls. The carob bowl is from the wood I got from Perry Coy’s yard when he had the “carob wood grab”. I used a beading tool and burn wire on the bowls.

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David Bryant
Claro Walnut Bowl

Here is a small bowl I just finished from a small chunk of the walnut harvest Mark Dillon organized a couple of years ago. I turned it rough when it was green but I found the bad portion and didn't know what to do so I just let it sit until a couple of weeks ago.  I did my best to stabilize the "rotten" portion with several floodings of thin crazy glue.  Lots of very light sanding.  The entire bowl still isn't very round but it's interesting.  I finished it with multiple coats of wipe on poly.

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Danny Shamoon
Pens

As follows left to right

Stabilized Spalted Beach/Maple Rollerball Pen

Bird’s Eye Maple Pen and Pencil set

Acrylic Stars and Stripes Pen and Pencil set

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David Bryant
Wooden Easter Eggs

In 2016 I started making a few wooden Easter Eggs on my lathe and have done it every year since. Each year I make the whole batch (5 to 8) from the same wood and I also date them, but each year is a different kind of wood. Each year I give them to the same people in my life - wife, daughter, niece, etc. so that over time they should end up with a big Easter basket filled with a variety of eggs, and hopefully something to remember dad, grandpa, brother-in-law, or uncle by. My wife has told me I can’t go before she goes so she’s not worried about remembering me.

Prior years were made from walnut, maple, red oak cutoffs from a custom staircase my brother in law made, and pieces of the harvested black walnut from a couple of years ago. This year it was obviously harder to go find some cool wood, so I took a 1 x 6 x 6’ piece of light cherry, (I think) from my stash and milled some 1 x 3 x 2’ pieces. I then laminated them to form 3 x 3 blocks and then turned eggs from that.The laminations are almost invisible. Weather and shutdown prevented me from spraying lacquer, my preference, so I sanded to 600 and used multiple coats of wipe on poly, finishing with steel wool to evenly dull the gloss.

My grandkids play with some lacquered maple ones from 2016 and the finish is still perfect. By the way, turning something that sort of looks like an egg is easy. Turning an egg is much harder for me, but every year I get a little better!

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Mark Dillon
Milk Bottle Weed Pot

Took a limb of ash and cut off a chunk for a warm-up exercise. Spotted a small milk bottle in my shop and used it as a template. I'll spray finish it with Deft semi gloss to complete this weed pot. I think I'll make a couple more.

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David Bryant
Water Bottle Lid

I made a replacement top for a water bottle out of some random piece in my pile - not sure what it is.  Maybe ash?  I cut apart the old faux plastic/bamboo lid from the bottle, carefully saving the thread insert.  After turning the lid and a precisely fitted recess for the thread piece, I epoxied it in place.  Looks pretty good!

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