Well, on my last post I threatened to start carving, so I thought I should finally get around and post some of it.  I have added a new gallery page, called Carved Turnings. This contains my most recent work.  There are others pieces, but most of my earlier work has sold and I didn’t always get photos.  As I add new work I will strive to get good pictures and keep it updated.

This piece is one I completed just in time to take to the AAW symposium in June of 2018.  It is about 12 inches tall, silver maple.  I expected to bring it back for the gallery in Springfield (Haphazard Creativity) but I got a call on Saturday afternoon of the symposium, and someone wanted to buy it.  So it went to it’s new home, and this cell phone shot is all I got of it.

I still do a lot of plain old turning, and I still love it. If I only did carved items, my production would slow to a snail’s pace. Most carved pieces take from a few hours to a few weeks to finish, and some even longer. I have stopped turning a lot of items that I made just because they sell well – pens and rolling pins for example. It was getting to be like a job, having to have x number of certain things and doing them in bulk production runs. Mostly I make what I feel like making on that day.  Everything is a one-of-a-kind, and I think the value of what I make is higher because of that.