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Sister Hog, Brother Tree, and the Voice of Copper: a Celebration of Long Labor and Process

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“JACK’S STORY” BY ISAIAH ELDRIDGE

Wood Turning – Jack’s Story from Isaiah Eldridge on Vimeo.

Isaiah Eldridge, a local film-maker and journalist, spent some time with me last week as I we both plied our trades.

Weitergehen “Go On”

winter’s lathe work

Red oak bowl with salting and beaver teeth-marks.

Red oak bowl with salting and beaver teeth-marks.

red oak
A beaver girded and killed the red oak tree form which this bowl was made. I endeavored to feature his his teeth marks in a few of the bowls.
red oak
communion plates
red bud
kentucky coffee tree
persimmon communion cups
black walnut platter
platter and cups
black walnut
black walnut
fumed and textured red oak bowl
fumed red oak
fumed red oak
fumed red oak
fumed red oak
black walnut
black walnut
black walnut
black walnut vessel
red oak
red oak
red oak detail
red oak
red oak detail
black walnut
black walnut
box wood
box wood
box wood

box wood

Many of these bowls are or will be for sale at our Etsy Store: BaumWerk.

Gymnocladus dioicus deconstructed at 800 rpm

A more singular post than is normal around here, but I am really into taking these high speed photos of spinning wood and stationary steel precipitating a diaspora of fibers and debris. This is a piece of a Kentucky Coffee Tree being made into a bowl.
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October Pull

Frosty Morning, traditional, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bones
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Bald Cypress Bowl and More

Cypress bowl on the lathe.

Same bowl on the bench.

A few other shop pictures…

A white oak chair leg for a repair job, being bent in a form.  The leg was turned and bent while green.  You can see my first failed attempt.

flattening a walnut half for turning with a fore-plane