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Here's a recent turning that I did for our local woodturning competition. It's called Peyoke Medicine Bowl. The Peyoke Medicine Bowl is a tribal mortar and pestle. A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind and mix, in this case, medicinal herbs and plants. The mortar, which is almost...

This is a mesquite Mortar and Pestle that I started in Arizona and finished when I got home. It is 3 1/2" in diameter and 3 1/2" high and finished with Danish oil and buffed and waxed with Carnuba wax. Cheers, Jim

Maple and walnut. Mineral oil finish.

Just getting started into wood turning, so I figured I'd try to make a couple useful things since I hand grind my own incense. The red elm is reclaimed wood from a tree the electric company dropped last summer to clear a power line.

Mortar and pestle made from spectraply. It is 4.75×3 inches. The finish is Mylands hi-gloss finish.

These two sets are an attempt to continue practicing my wood turning, AND use up scrap wood around the shop. ;-) The set on the left has an East Indian rosewood mortar, while the bowl (from the top down) is layered birch, walnut, oak, walnut, oak. I tried to make it a goblet style bowl. these...

This object is approximately 8" in diameter and 7" high. I actually turned it last fall (it was the inspiration for this project http://lumberjocks.com/projects/24407), but my Brother-in-Law just graduated from pharmacy school, so it's been tucked behind the workbench since then. It was bright...