Madrone salad or fruit bowl with grain figure across the bowl and slight birds eye burl on one edge.   This was turned green and has the characteristic madrone movement as it dries, leaving the bowl with a distinctive character of its own.   It is slightly out of round with unusual wrinkling and a wave on the rim.   It is finished with Dalys Profin Oil and is food safe.

Approx 15″ in diameter and 4.5″ deep

JLM1709

This tree was blown over while visiting Mendicino, California.   A rare opportunity for me to turn Oak.   Although this is a conventional edge bowl, the drying process has created ovality that enhances the lip.   The natural color patches are an added attraction.   This is finished with Min Wax wipe on polyurethane and is food safe.

Approx 18″ in diameter and 6″ deep

JLO2609

Large cherry bowl with great grain coloring.   This was made from a limb of a monstrous tree that was located on the Stanwood Elementary School grounds.   It is finished with Dalys Profin Oil and is food safe.

Approx 16″ in diameter and 5.5″ deep

 JLC609

Really nicely figured curly Eastern hard maple laminated with walnut, bloodwood and yellowheart to make this large platter with a bead that defines the rim.  Finished with food safe polyurethane.

18 1/2” dia

ABL0127

Box elder trees are a member of the maple family and display a unique and beautiful red discoloration as a response to injuries.  This large platter was finished with a food safe wipe-on poly.

16” dia

ABL0126

This is a first of it’s kind collaborative effort between my wife (a nationally known and certified rug hooking teacher) and me.  We know of no one who has previously combined these 2 art forms.  The vase is mahogany and the hooking depicts Red Bluff Bay on Baranof Island in Alaska.  The vase is hollow and is finished with Danish oil.  This is truly one of a kind.

4 1/2” dia X 13 1/2” high

ABL0125

This 4 bowl nested set was all turned from the same fantastic piece of Western maple burl.  Every square inch of every bowl is 100% burl figure and each was left with the natural bark edge.  Finish is food safe wipe-on poly .

Bowl diameters are:  15”, 11.5”, 8 1/2” and 6”

ABL0124

Butternut is considered the “white walnut”.  This large hollow vase was turned from a piece of figured butternut.

6” dia X 9 1/2” high

ABL0123

Ambrosia maple gets it’s name from the ambrosia beetle that attacks the tree once it has been cut down.  The beetle introduces a fungus which results in black stripes throughout the wood.  In this bowl, the beetle holes have been left natural (not filled).  Food safe Danish oil finish.

8 1/4” dia X 2 1/4” high

ABL0122

This hollow Vase was turned from a nicely figured piece of maple.  It is hollow and would be great to display dried flowers.

4” dia X 8” tall

ABL0121