Hot Air Balloon
Sapele with maple pewa and top cap. Floating on magnets. About 3” diameter and 6” tall.
Waves
A hollow form with natural edge opening. Elm burl with wedge pewa repairing some natural cracks.
I think the burl figure looks like waves crashing over the opening.
About 5″ tall and 4.5″ diameter.
I’ll Wave As I Fly By
A sliced hot air balloon. Elm burl with walnut pewa and cap.
About 7-1/2″ tall, 5″ diameter.
Stitched Up
Hollowform of unknown wood. About 7″ diameter, 3″ high.
Wenge pewa stitching up a crack.
Hollow Form
Silver Maple, about 10″ diameter, 5″ tall.
Maple pewa reinforcing cracks through the piths.
Fairly Useless Platter
Or maybe it’s a shallow bowl. Either way, it won’t hold soup.
Cherry burl with large bark inclusions wenge pewa) and some bug tracks. Quite a mess. This was the outer core from around the bowl I posted earlier.
About 12″ diameter, 2-1/4″ tall.
Cherry Burl Bowl
About 8″ diameter, 2.75″ high. Round bottom (no foot, just a little dimple so it sits upright).
Simple walnut oil finish.
A few pewa (maple) to stabilize a crack, and some epoxy fill in the cracks just to make the bowl more usable, since the cracks went all the way through.
Ash Calabash
Calabash bowl from an ash crotch. Walnut pewa joining some cracks. No foot, just a little dimple. Some great figure in this piece. About 7″ diameter, 3-1/2″ tall. Walnut oil finish.
Sliced Hollow Form
Honey Locust. About 6-1/2” diameter, 3-1/4 tall. Sliced apart and reassembled with wenge pewa. Interior painted black, exterior finished with walnut oil.
Wormy Ash Sliced
Wormy Ash. Hollowed with a small (1/4″) hole in the top. Sliced and reassembled with Wenge pewa.
About 5 1/2″ diameter, 6 3/4″ tall. Interior painted black, exterior finished with walnut oil.
Yes, I hollowed it through the bottom.