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.

Beech Salad Bowl

A simple curved style salad bowl.  Finished in Haarland Danish Oil.

Matai Coffee table

A horizontal slice of a Matai trunk. Beautiful grain.  Found in my late uncle Rexs shed ceilings rafters.

Deep Elm Bowl with natural bark edge -

tree cut from near family farm in Manakau in 1980s

Shallow Rimu bowl 20cm

Fun Totara post project - piwakawaka (fantail)

Project 5 - an interesting lip

This was a blank of dark chocolate coloured wood (unknown variety).
It turned out to be very hard, dry and dense.  Very challenging to turn.