Small shallow dish - Rimu

Salad bowl - Beech

 

Kauri bowl

 

Large Totara burl dish

 

Elm bowl

 

Large Elm flat dish, cut from Waitohu Valley Road, Manakau (Aitkens Farm)

I was given a large half meter square slab of Elm by my Aunty Cush and Uncle Brian. They had milled it from their neighbours farm, on Waitohu Valley Road, Manakau in the 1980's.  The slab had sat in the shed on their farm, Hyfield - which my Grandad had first purchased and cleared in the late 1960s - until they left the farm.  The slab moved with them to Tauranga when they bought an avacado orchard there, and moved again to Church Road in Napier, when they moved there.  

I turned this flat dish for my mum as a present.

   

 

 

 

Tui on a Totara post

A Christmas present for Nana!  She loves her Tui and the post was from her farm.