I made two spheres and the stands to go with them.  Richard Raffan my favorite teaching wood turner says that they will crack and they have.  

Spent the afternoon roughing out a large piece of black walnut wood to dry out and become a canister,  This will be the third one I have roughed out recently.  I plan to make four of them.  

I made a box for my medication and a cover for an object in Linda's bathroom. 

I made three Faberge eggs and stands.  I also stained them. Labor intensive even though they do not look like it.  Linda will further decorate them.

I made two new bowls: one 8 inches by 4 and half inches and the other 7 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Wood pile wood was used.  November 2015

October 17, 2015.  I recently completed a gold leaf candle holder and four natural edge birch bowls. 

Linda and Gary made a Halloween Miniature Birdhouse. 

Linda and Gary Bingham made Christmas Decorations, Linda did a very good job of decorating, painting the Christmas decorations I turned on the lathe.

Gary Made a Chisel Holder to sit on lathe while turning.  September 2015

I made this 7 1/2 inch by 3 1/2 vase last Thursday (August 2015). I drilled into the top and it has a class tube placed there.

This is a bowl I just completed.  Features stained, painted bottom.  August 2015.

This is a vase I made to support a metal insert with spikes in it to place flowers in.  It is colored with our latest favorite for the house.  I had to redo the top a  number of times because the color brought out lines that I needed to sand away to look right.  Gary Bingham 

This started as a very large piece of camphor wood.  It ended up as a 12 inch shallow bowl.  Lots of chips.  I needed to turn it on the outside of the lathe where I can turn items up to 24 inches.  This involved a lot of mechanical changes to the lathe.

I just completed ten boxes.  Many of these boxes are very small and it was a challenge to construct them.  My chucks that I had would not allow me to finish them (I thought at the time).  I remembered that I had bought a very small chuck at Harbor Freight years ago thinking that I might come in handy.  It worked fine to complete many of these boxes.  I tried to make each one a different design.  I think I succeeded overall.  I wanted to do something different then make a bowls.  I do have three bowls roughed out so, back to the bowls soon.

Gary Bingham

June 22, 2015

I just completed making a mortar, pestle in Linda and my favorite aqua color.  I am also working on a batch of boxes.  This is the first completed box.  The top comes off the box and it is hollow inside.  The mortar and pestle inspiration came to me last year when I was on a tour of Turkey.  One of the places we visited had this item for sale and I resolved to make it in the future.  

I made 9 pedestals for Earl's gaming activities.  

Today I used my coring system which was the first time i used it since we moved to the new house in Rio Vista.  In the move, some of my coring system was missing, stolen so i had to buy some new parts for it before i could use it.  This is redwood which is a soft wood and it is wet.  I am letting the wood dry before I finish it.    Gary Bingham