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Joe, This particular piece came from a tree taken down in a friends back yard in the Blue Mountains a few years back. It looked pretty ordinary as a blank and I was quite surprised as I roughed it out, in the end the whole colour, grain and spirals etc worked out very well, it should sell well...

Haven't posted for a while, this is Blue Mountains Eucalyptus near Sydney. 9X5 " Oiled with BLO then buffed

Mike another outstanding piece =D> This composition is one of the best, if not the best of all teapots. Darn I think I said that about your last one. :)

.. Truly! Its rocket science, I kid you not. Spirals, flutes whatever its not that important. As mentioned its soft timber and it carves well too that I would add its very stable and predictable with not allot of tear out and most of all being a noxious weed here its free.

This was a fairly ordinary piece of CL with not much heart wood. So a couple of coats of DO later it has darkened up nicely and makes a fairly respectable looking bowl. 250mm x 150mm with a opening of 100mm

you can handle it :) I drove back from Verns in Emerald in one hit, something like 1500 or so

Woody yes it can be messy but this time I used a Proforme Hollower and it tends to shoot the chips etc off to one side. Hobbler... Parks, hmm,do you know him personally? I intend to contact him and to get some burrs.

Here we go a something for Christmas for the DIL 16X4 Mallee finished in satin WOP. This is the first of few I have been requested to do.

...and I dont do much of it these days either :)

I have used this method extensively over a period of 2 years and it has merit. However there is a proviso it does not work on all timbers and you will have to find what species it works of you. Down under it works on mainly soft timbers such as Camphor laurel and in this case it shortens the...

A bit of both actually, this part took the most time and was the most difficult.

Mallee hollow form, around 10x5 took awhile to finish the wet weather played merry H*** with the polyurethane I was using.

Very nice pieces and well finished to boot, gets my vote Woody

Thanks for all your positive comments, much appreciated. Elaine and EnErY follow this link to an article I wrote on cutting spirals, failing that PM me. http://www.woodturnersamerica.com/index ... &Itemid=57

I like around 75mm glued in with epoxy, commercially many only provide 50mm. My argument against that is if it ever faults you've lost your handle and a good catch on hardwood will most likely rip it out. I probably have made more than 60% of the handles I use with this method and have never...