Wood Turning

With a little time to enjoy my tools, I cranked up the mini-lathe and turned a few bowls. The one in the foreground is from a piece of maple I brought home from the John Campbell Folk School four years ago. It was in a plastic bag for most of that time and had become spalted - a fact I didn't realize until starting to work it. The second is from a piece of apple wood from Ease's yard in Marietta. The third is from a piece of dogwood from a dead tree I took down three years ago over at Rocky Hollow - hard as a rock. The fourth is in process from a piece of purpleheart a friend gave me in Brandon about 20 years ago - well aged. I've hauled this wood around long enough. Figured it about time to do something with it. These will all probably go into the church auction come Christmas time.