Messmate Lidded Container
This lidded container is made from messmate, or stringybark a common eucalypt in Victoria. It has an ebonised lid
Cherry wood containers
A cluster of teardrop lidded containers using cherry wood. Fruit woods have attractive grains, colours and are soft to turn on the lathe.
Lidded containers
Lidded containers with detailed ebonised finials and one with raised delicate base.
Figured Blackwood vase
FIGURED BLACKWOOD VASE – Crafted from blackwood found near Hanging Rock Victoria. The wood was cut from the fork of a fallen tree and the grain is highly figured of chocolate brown colour. The vase is 250 mm high and 70 mm in diameter. It was sanded to 1000 grit and finished with four coats of danish oil. It won the best acacia intermediate section at the 2018 Australian Woodturning Exhibition.
Blackheart Sassafras
A 400mm rimmed platter made from sought after Tasmanian blackheart sassafras, with classic spalting figure.
Lidded Redgum Burl
A large decorative redgum burl container which can be used as a jewellery box with an inserted lid made from spalted oak.
Queensland Maple
Approx. 250 mm diameter platter made from Queensland maple featuring a raised highlighted edge rim
English Ash Purple Heart
An attractive rim lidded container from pale English Ash and a contrasting Purple Heart wood lid.
English Ash Bowl
A large deep bowl (42cm x 10cm) made from English Ash with textured and ebonised rim.
English Ash bowl closeup.
Closeup of bowl made from English Ash
Boobialla
A container of highly figured wood from trees grown on dunes in coastal area of Australia.
Lidded Queensland Maple
A container made from Queensland Maple root with a beaded body and featuring an ebonised finial. Something for special treasures.
Jarrah Burl
A large 500mm Western Australian Jarrah burl wood, being highly figured with part of the sapwood featuring on the rim edge.
Lidded Container
Lidded container from red gum burl with ebonised finial, rim and base.
Ebonising is the process of converting the colour of the tannins in the wood into an “ebony” colour using a solution of vinegar and rusty nails
Huon Pine platter
Huon pine platter
Crafted from salvaged Tasmanian Huon pine, this platter measures 450mm in diameter and exhibits the classic “birdseye” character that is formed within the burl.
Red Mallee burl
Jewellery box approx. 130 mm diam. This box is turned from red mallee burl (a burl is a deformation on the trunk or branch of a tree, commonly known as a “wort”
Red Morrell burl
Red Morrell burl
Natural edge bowl with “wings” highlighting the spikey sapwood edge and the spectacular irregular grain of the Western Australian Red Morrell burl
Red Gum burl
Red Gum burl
A fruit platter 300 mm in diameter with rolled edge featuring the classic fossilised inclusions of this River Murray Red Gum burl
Tasmanian Myrtle burl
Tasmanian Myrtle burl.
Natural edge bowl made from Tasmanian myrtle burl. Burls do not have a regular grain, but rather random “higgledy-piggledy” forms