Spring / Summer 2019 turning projects
Here are a few more things I've been doing in the shop..
This is a shallow plate made from London Plane (a hybrid of plane and sycamore).
This is a small garlic press with mesquite handles.
This is probably the last walnut bowl I'll turn. I've become sensitized to it, and it sets my allergies off.
I made my wife a replacement wedding ring from crushed opal and tungsten.
This is a travel mug I made from bradford pear.
This is a neat little gadget. It's a soda can opener made from osage orange (bois d'ark).
I made these measuring spoons from spalted sycamore that I'd dye stabilized.
I really love bradford pear. Such a lovely color.
Something for the dogs to chase, a laser pointer in dyed curly maple.
A friend of mine is a hiker, this fire starter should be useful. Sycamore is the wood.
Another bottle opener, this time in pecan.
This bowl started out as a dough bowl, with very thick walls. My wife started making bigger loaves, so it wasn't needed. I carved the walls down to be scalloped.
This ring is from green acrylic over a stainless steel core.
This was an experiment. I inlaid shell fragments in a shallow trough in the bowl's rim, and then filled with epoxy resin.
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You are extremely talented! 
You are a very talented artist. Do you have a website with items to purchase?
Here's my mailing address......
For most of my adult life I have dreamed of working with wood, but don't have the room for the tools, and I don't have anyone to teach me. And now I have some really serious arthritis in my hands, so it's pretty much out of the question at this point.
So I will sit here and drool over your work. And wish that you did sell it!
I'm a woman, and I don't traditionally see a lot of women wanting to do stuff like this. But as I got older, I absolutely fell in love with the kind of work that you are doing. I've kept copies of pictures I have seen over the years of incredible woodwork.
I definitely don't have hand strength anymore, control is a bit iffy. But I would love to at least go and see one of these places. I will p.m. you my location and maybe you can come up with something that is somewhat close to me.
Thank you so much.
At least not before I have an epi-pen on hand. 
wonderful work!
The Bradford pear bowl, the wedding ring!
Like the broken shells on the wooden bowl rim.
The pecan handle - lovely wood.
I loved the metal shop and wood shop at my Art College decades back.
I can't believe though after seeing some wood turning on my FB page that I never looked for a lathe in the woodshop back then! 
Hopefully you show us this year's work.
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