Random Shots

I haven't posted in a while, but a lot has been going on. Here are some random shots...

Gallery opening a few weeks ago...

This image features two bowls turned a couple years ago (upper left), a brand new spalted maple platter design (upper right), a spalted maple pepper mill (lower left and lower right), my new favorite project (lower middle left), and a weathered maple pedestal bowl  

Here we've got a couple star platters (upper left) and a bunch of carved bowl/platters. 

More carved bowl/platters 

Showroom area showing Ryan's maple dining table with a bunch of my work on top. I built the dark pedestal table a few years ago while working with Paul at Stowe Restoration. It is stained tiger maple with a tilt top. I'm proud. : -) There are a couple wall hanging experiments.

Another angle of the showroom, this one with sofa. A nice place to rest after a long day of making shavings, but the dust shows up on the black velvet like stars in the sky. 

Here I am caressing a maple platter, comforting it, reassuring that its new home will be a good one. 

Star serving platter with chopsticks and ceramic holder. This platter is a slice of yellow birch. My lumber supplier had just finished drying a bunch of this material so I loaded up on it. It came up to 14" wide! Gotta love that!

A fan base. 

Demonstrating at The Burlington Artist Market 

I turned mushrooms and sold them to the audience right off the lathe. The money went to benefit a friend whose house  was wrecked by Irene. Notice the woodturned lathe stand. I love those things. They disassemble easy and pack up nicely. 

I think people were as interested in the giant mess as they were the turning.  In subsequent outings I have developed a technique that controls the amount of wood shaving mess. The new technique is doing smaller projects. And fewer people are interested in smaller projects.