Turning cometition - No longer about who can spin around the longest.

This is one of my bowls. I thought that I would throw in something of my own once in a while. If this blog is supposed to be about stuff that's made out of wood that I think is cool, why not throw in some of my own stuff. If I didn't think it was cool, I wouldn't have made it that way, right? This piece was the culmination of my college career and I recently entered it in a turning competition in Harrisburg. Wish me luck. If I win they give me more tools.

A good lesson to learn before undertaking a woodworking project is that curves is hard. It looks like this person sandwiched tree pieces of a cheaper wood betwixt some nice maple veneer and then clamped it between a mold made of wood to keep the curve. This is very clever use of negative space, and using the zebrawood for the drawer slide was a nice, subtle use of color.

Just in case.

I found these on Etsy. I'm really in to very customized pieces made for specific electronics or made for specific objects. If you look at old cameras, tools, and binoculars, a lot of old objects had custom fit cases. Everything is better when it's made of wood.