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Built from local Red Cedar with Alaskan Yellow Cedar (Cypress) highlights. The hull is essentially finished but I still have not finished the fiberglass, joining the hull and final fitting of the boat. I take a lot of flack over this as this has been an ongoing project for a number of years...

This is a bowl I turned wile attending a class with David Marks in Nov '08. Great class didn't need but couldn't pass up the opportunity to attend a class with a renowned master craftsman and a great down to earth guy. I left the knot as it was that is why I picked that peace of wood. Wile...

Like the previous project I posted, this closed form bowl is turned from a piece of heavily spalted Alaskan birch burl. The wood was cut green and allowed to dry outside in the damp and cool south central Alaskan environment for about two years. Then I coated it in black leaf mold from my...

Turned vase from Alaskan birch. The piece was end-turned from a large chunk of green birch. I spindle mounted the blank, turned it to rough and put a tenon on what would become the bottom. Reversed it into a four-jaw chuck and hollowed with a combination of an end-grain termite cutter and a...

I collected tons of cut Alaskan Birch (a sub species of North American White or Paper Birch) from a new road area near my home in the MatSu Valley. The figure and character of Alaskan Birch depends entirely on where it grows. In the deep swamp where there is little light, the trees grow very...

More spalted Alaskan birch burl. The blank for this piece was cut from the largest birch burl I've ever found, it was almost five feet across. It came from a tree that was damaged in the Miller's Reach/Big Lake fire here in Alaska's MatSu Valley about fifteen years ago. The tree lived for years...

Unlike most turners, I tend to cut my green blanks from the heart of the log rather than splitting the wood into two pieces. I like the heartwood, or brown heart, that most turners avoid, and in fact I specifically look for trees with large heartwood rosettes. This bowl is a good example of...

This is a piece of Alaskan birch burl. The burl was cut green here in the Alaskan MatSu. It was a very large piece of wood and even after five years of drying in the burl pile, it was still very wet inside when I cut it into several large turning blanks. This piece was turned wet to rough...

During a day trip to Talkeetna, Alaska last summer, my wife and I purchased a trio of prints from a local artist. Not-so-fast-forward to a few months later and I finally get around to making a frame for them. Never having worked with it before, I decided to try sapele. I had the mat and glass...

This vase was turned from green Alaskan birch burl. The wood was fantastic, filled with birdseyes, swirl, color, and an astounding shimmering opalescence. The burl dictated the final shape of the piece. I wanted to emphasize the fantastic grain and figure. The base is North American walnut...

Turned Birdhouse for the Lumberjocks Birds of a Feather contest. As a turner, I love making birdhouses on the lathe, so when I saw the Birds of a Feather contest I knew I had to enter. The body is made from Alaskan birch heartwood, turned end grain and hollowed on the lathe. Then I relief...

This is an end-grain turned piece of Alaskan Birch. Carved and then colored with aniline dyes: it's similar to the process I used for this piece: http://lumberjocks.com/projects/35796. It was green turned to rough, allowed to dry for about a year, and then finish turned. The foot, rim, and...

Alaskan Birch heartwood. This is a rework of a piece I posted here on Lumberjocks earlier. I kept looking at it and decided it just needed … more. Something. Green turned to rough, then dried for several years in my shop here in Palmer, Alaska, before turning to finish. After turning, I...

A clock with primary wood Yellow Cedar from Southeast Alaska, (picked up in Ketchikan while traveling through a few years ago, from a small custom sawmill), clock face is English Walnut, and number pips are maple. This clock is for my son and his family who are living in Alaska. The art tile is...

This last clock I am keeping for myself. It's primary wood is reclaimed California Redwood (my California heritage) that I get from a small mill in Crescent City, Ca. The face is maple and the pips are English walnut. The tile is a moose (my Alaskan heritage). Thanks for looking.

This piece was inspired by the design of a traditional Japanese Torii Gateway, with a little twist i added to suspend a photograph in between two pieces of glass. I think i'll put a hanger on its back for the option of hanging it on a wall also. The whole thing is Spanish Cedar except for the...

A colleague had seen some of my work and asked if I could help with her husband's taxidermy display of some ducks he took on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. While the taxidermist took care of the ducks nicely, he's no woodworker. The wood base had a lackluster finish, exposed nail heads...

This piece is similar in design to a previous piece I posted. Same basic idea. This one has some nice spalt lines and a richer more golden color. It's about 12" in diameter and finished in five applications of Danish Oil.