Ripple Plate

 

Here's another piece, turned from timber out of the scrap pile. The plate is about 200mm in diameter.

 It has a bead, or step, around the rim, and another in from the rim, just before the ripples start.

Once again, this is stained pine, but this time it's untreated timber, so it could conceivably be used for food. The rippled surface would make eating from it inconvenient though. 

Scrap Pine Bowl

Yet another little bowl, 125mm diameter by 70mm tall.

This is turned from an offcut of a treated pine fence post, which explains its horrible knottiness. Stained with Feast-Watson walnut spirit stain, my favourite, and polished with my own home-made paste wax.

It won't hold liquid, owing to the nasty knot-holes in one side, but even if it did, the H3 treatment would make bringing it into contact with food highly undesirable.

Quiz Trophy Chalice

 

This is a chalice I made for A, as a trophy for her weekly work quiz competition.

It's designed to be sturdy rather than delicate, as the last (oak) one got busted in the violent hurley-burley of office life.

This one is just scrap pine, stained and waxed, and I think it doesn't look too shabby. It's about 170mm tall.

Bamboo Platters

 

These two little platters were turned from off-cuts of a laminated bamboo cutting board that I had cut down to a more manageable size. They're about 120mm in diameter, and 20mm thick.

Bamboo works very nicely, and it takes a good finish too. These have both just been sanded to 240 grit with no other finish applied, and they've come up to a nice smooth satin polish. 

Little Pot

 

I don't know for sure what this wood is.

It's demolition timber, and probably a floor or ceiling joist, so possibly rimu but more likely, around here, black maire.

It's 70mm tall. 

Peonies

 

Peonies by our hallway Buddha.

They blow themselves up and up and up, and then one day, you walk near them and all their petals just fall off at once.

Sapele Gouge Rack

 

I have a few very small Hwahong linocut gouges that I like to use, and their slightly bulbous forms don't fit in any of my other gouge racks.

So I got a sapele off-cut out of the rubbish pile, cut it up and whacked it on the lathe. 

It's in four bits: the top and bottom discs, the pillar, and the finial, all glued together. 

Nosey

 

This is my latest linocut, printed on Hosho Select washi in Flint water-based ink.

I ran the brayer down the edges of the plate just to give the image a visual boundary.