About 7″ diameter x 4.5″ high. Walnut, turned green, sliced, and re-assembled with maple pewa. Finish is walnut oil.
There are a few small walnut pewa stitching a crack on one side (not shown in the picture).
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Wormy Maple Hollow Form
This piece is about 7″ diameter and 3-1/2″ tall. Lots of worm holes around one side, which I have cleaned out of all the “bug dirt”.
Sliced Maple Hollow Form
Maple Hollow Form, about 5″ diameter and 6″ tall. Sliced and re-assembled with walnut strips. Lacquer finish.
Sliced Walnut Hollow Form
Walnut Hollow Form, about 6.5″ tall, 5″ diameter. Sliced and re-assembled with maple pewa. Walnut oil finish.
Cracked Hollow Form
Walnut, about 5″ diameter, 6 1/2″ tall. Maple pewa across the crack, turquoise fill in the crack.
Generations
Three Maple hollow forms. These are 10-1/2″, 5″ and 1-7/8″ tall. The larger one is 7″ diameter.
Big Leaf Maple Hollow Form
This natural-top hollow form is Big Leaf Maple. It is about 6″ diameter and 2″ tall.
It was made form a core removed from the center of this bowl.
Another Wormy Ash Hollowform
Wormy Ash, 7.5″ diameter, 4.5″ tall.
This piece has a nice bark inclusion running up the side. I might have left that alone, except that several other cracks developed during drying.
So I fixed those cracks with Wenge pewa (butterfly inserts) and also bridged the bark inclusion so it would look more complete.
The wood has lots of worm holes – these were quite a bit of trouble. The worms leave the holes filled with packed sawdust, which I like to clean out. That makes for a lot of detail work with dental tools and compressed air..
This piece was selected by the American Association of Woodturners Forum as Turning of the Week for Nov 29, 2021.
Wormy Ash Hollow Form
Ash, full of worm holes. The piece is about 8″ diameter and 4.5″ high.
Walnut Hollow Form
This Hollow Form is Walnut, about 6-1/2″ around and 5″ tall.
Turned from a full log, so the pith (center of the log) runs thru the sides.
The stress around the pith usually leads to cracking. After it sat for a while and developed some cracks, I repaired them with Maple Pewa patches
There is a void in the side, where the tree grew around its own bark, likely due to some damage or a broken branch.
