osage orange

October Pull

Frosty Morning, traditional, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bones

The Ascent of Maclura pomifera

Spiral stair in Hedge (Maclura pomifera, bodark, bois d’ark, osage orange). Designed by my friend Cody to join a 100 year old barn basement to the floor above. The barn, just outside of Fall River, got hit by a twister about 4-5 years ago and is now being rebuilt as a workshop and living quarters. The stair isn’t officially finished, we already have a list of things we want to change, but this is it in it’s first state.

Sangreal

From the Song of the Ancient, here is a small turned and carved vessel in black walnut and osage orange. The idea isn’t fully formed or unified, but it is advancing. As the yellow osage wood ages it will turn a deep red-orange, nearly as dark as the walnut.

White Oak Relief Press

Osage Bowls

!st of 3 natural edge Osage Orange bowls. This one is gone already, but 2 and 3 are available.

2 & 3

2

3

Carved birch bowl.

Yellow Carnage

The bright yellow carnage of green Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera).

Cutting bowl-blanks.

Osage Orange bowl on the lathe.

Building a deeper or longer tool-rest

Spoons

Ten spoons in black walnut, osage orange and soft maple. Carved in the past month under a mulberry tree with axe and knife.

Soft maple, osage orange, and walnut.

Osage orange.

Roman “V” signograph.

Osage Orange Bowls

Here is an osage orange, or hedge bowl. It developed a small crack in the sapwood during drying.

Another osage bowl in various stages on the lathe.