Salad Set and Sycamore Jug

[Doghouse]

The first is a mahogany salad bowl set. Thank SWMBO for the decoration of the table. She gets a little wild for each season.

The spalted sycamore was intended to look like a rustic jug. I remember seeing similar ones in the sugar houses in VT. The sycamore was a (rimes with beech) to turn, it wanted to separate along the growth lines. It had some very large cracks in it which I filled with black epoxy.

 

[NavyDiver]

Great job!

 

[Jim15]

They look great, nice work.

 

[alamocdc]

Beautiful stuff, John!

 

[Schneider]

Nice work. Good job.

 

[tnilmerl]

Wow! At first glance, I thought you had turned some pumpkins. Great color in the bowls. THe spalting is quite nice...

 

[Doghouse]

Thanks, I cannot take full credit for the spalting, the heart wood side of the jug is not spalted. The lines there are black epoxy. I filled in the big cracks with epoxy, and the smaller ones with ca. I used almost a whole bottle of ca on that one.

SWMBO decorates the table for each season / holiday. She just went out and picked up the pumpkins, but made the quilt last year.

 

[terrymiller]

Hey John is that the chunk of sycamore from me.

 

[Doghouse]

Terry, yes, that is 1/2 of the chunk. The lamp was from the Box elder you gave me also.