Old, new here

 This is a piece that I made a while ago but did not show here.

This is a piece of Puriri  a tree that was cut down close to where I live it normally takes a long time to dry so this was still wet when I started the work on it, the yellow wood is the sap wood so the dark wood is the hart wood, there was some rot in it which I carved away.

The length is 240mm and the height is 70mm, painted with acrylic paints and finished with a rattle can of satin spray.

Just finished

 I wanted to see how accurate I could be at piercing a thin turned dish/bowl.

This is a piece of eucalyptus about 240mm wide and 70mm high, this eucalyptus was cut down about the middle of 2023 and turned to a thick walled piece till it dried then turned so the carved area was 3 to 4mm thick that was the easy part, the piercing, carving and pyrography took about 4 weeks to do.

Takes a while, but it's worth waiting for

 Yes I got despondent about blogging but here I am now.

And a lot has happened, everything I make now takes weeks though I mostly only work at it for a few hours each day more so now that we are in winter.

Forming the handles and the carving of the pattern were both new experiences for me, I seem to remember doing the carving twice as I learnt that I could do better the painting was a whole big experiment too that came out as good or better than I could have hoped for.

The wood is Rimu a native to NZ that had some big splits in it that were

all glued up using epoxy glue.