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Illusion bowl

My latest bowl is another one made with some real beautiful wood. This wooden bowl is 13 inches in diameter x 4 1/4 inches high. This bowl was turned from Curly Maple and has some really nice figure in it. I should start calling all of my salad bowls illusion bowls. Because I turn a …

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Small Birch Burl Bowl

So I have another bowl to show you. This is a small Birch Burl wood bowl that I turned a little while ago. It’s about 6 inches in diameter. The bowl has a lot of burl figure in it. The bowl features a nice rounded rim. You can find out more about this small bowl by …

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New Curly Maple Salad Bowl

    Here is a new Curly Maple Salad bowl that I just added to my website. This wood bowl is 10 inches in diameter by 3 inches high. This Curly Maple bowl even has some Birdseye figure in it. The bowl features a rounded undercut rim and has a nice curved shape to it. …

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Going Stir Crazy?

It just seems like it’s been one of those winters. People in the cities are screaming about how much snow they have gotten and for them it probably is a lot. However for us in the western mountains of Maine the snowfall amount has been about average, so far. At this time of the year …

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Headed out to Cape Cod

  Here are three Curly Maple Salad Bowls that are headed to Cape Cod. Well they are actually already there. I sent these bowls out a couple weeks ago to Woodworks Gallery in Brewster, Mass. I just haven’t had time to post about them. The largest of the three bowls is 14 inches in diameter …

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Colorful Morrison mill set

As many of you know, I like colorful things. A lot! I like to add color to plain pieces to liven them up. Recently I’ve been making ash mills and dying them all one color. Sometimes I add a liming wax to knock the color down and it adds a secondary color to subtly contrast the base color. Those …

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