Texas Ebony pic

curly maple pic

Ken DeMarco

>Here is some of the curly maple I picked up. 6" by 2" easy to make something nice with wood this good. comments welcome

Ken

Re: bottoms

Ken DeMarco

>Here are the bottoms, starting to get a little better at finnishing the bottom, this has been a struggle for me, my wife says its because finishing something is against my nature, I think shes on to something. ;^) again comments welcome

Thanks for Looking

Ken DeMarco

Sylvania, OH

Re: bottoms

Roly (So Cal)

>Those are good looking turnings, Ken. I wonder if Texas Ebony is extremely hard to work with. Natural edged pieces are my favorite, and if I brought one in the house like that, my wife would have it displayed on the fireplace mantle. Glad you posted the pics, and again I say this is such an informative site, and a good place to learn what good turning are supposed to look like. It reminds me of 15 years ago when I stuck little cork plugs over the face plate screw holes on the bottom of my first turnings. Duh, what did I know, I was just a novice. Getting a Nova chuck changed the quality of my turnings forever. Keep up the good work.

Roly, the lil' ol' So Cal spinner, who is always interested in what others are turning.

Re: bottoms

Ken DeMarco

>Roly, thanks for the kind words. The Texas ebony is very hard and heavy, left it fairly thick because I liked the way it looked. it did not seem to be too hard to work with, but I did have to sharpen the gouge more often than normal.

Ken

Hoping for a chuck from Santa