Linda designed this vase by drawing it out on a piece of paper.  I turned it per the design.  It is made of wet carob wood 4 inches by 11 inches.  It has been drilled out in the middle with three different size holes.  

I made this 11 by 2 3/4 inch vase with glass insert yesterday of Carob.  I bought the carob wood at the wood turners recent Christmas party.  I liked the look so much that I did not have the heart to put additional design features into it.  

Obtained some acacia  wood in Oakland on Saturday.  I received a wood available alert from the Bay Area Wood Turners on Friday and picked these two pieces up on Saturday.  These pieces of wood were too heavy for me and I put them in the trunk of my car anyway.  My hernias and back hurt as a result.

Made a 10 inch tall dry flower vase for Linda.  It is raffle wood which you can see has a lot of interesting figuring, bug holes, etc.  It will be interesting to see what flowers Linda puts into it.

I completed five new bowls after months of roughing out, drying and finishing this week.  They are made from maple, camphor and locus.  One of the maple ones has a coral inlay.  

I just completed this Chinese Tallow wood 10 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch bowl.  I engraved dragon flies in it.  I also embedded  coper metal into the cracks that had appeared in the wood.  I finished it with CA glue on its exterior.  Linda's favorite flying objects are dragon flies.  I tried to draw a good variety of them in the bowl.  

I made two black walnut boxes.  September 2016.

This is a camphor bowl. I made if for a new neighbor that moved in across the street from our house.  

Also, the pictures shows a bird house that completes a set of three bird houses I have made in the same style.  

I just finished three unfinished projects (paper clip magnet holder, salt shaker, tooth pick dispenser). Also, I have prepared 7 roughed out, dried out bowls ready for final turning, finishing. 

I just finished making twelve bottle toppers and a paper clip magnet holder.  I am trying to clean up left over projects.  I had the corks and dowels..  I also had left over wood.  

I just completed two miniature Christmas bird houses and am preparing to make  a number of cork bottle toppers.  

This is an Ash Bowl I made for my Tai Chi Instructor Mrs. Wu.

Linda and I make these six lathe turned snowmen.  I turned their bodies and hats.  Linda made their scarves and added the buttons, faces (and the white body on one).  

Linda and I competed some of our work in the Solano County Fair.  Linda was awarded two second place ribbons and one best of division ribbon.  Her and I had worked on the three Faberge eggs and we received a second place ribbon for that entry.  I really did not see any other wood work submitted for this fair.  The Bottle Toppers are a project I just finished.  There are six of them and I turned them from various colors of laminated wood.  They are fun to look at and I think they will make Christmas presents.  

This is a 7 inch by 2 1/2 bowl made from locus wood.  I made it for a new next door neighbor who is remodeling her house before moving in.

linda and I corroborated on this very nice bowl  which I think is museum quality.  It is a 10 1/2 by 1 3/4 inch figured maple bowl which I turned and Linda decorated.  She painted in the natural lines of the bowl.  These pictures were also taken on our new living room rug which was delivered today.  She chose the colors to go along with the color of the rug, I had to use special spray to make sure the paints did not run.  It is called “fixative”.  It worked.

Gary Bingham I made 5 wine stoppers and also the bases for the stoppers to be stored in. The bases were the most challenging to make. The bases are different types of wood glued together and turned. Linda's plate is a piece of maple which Linda hand drew the writing in and I burned into the wood. The plate is 7 1/2 wide. The stoppers are made from bocote, bubinga, paduak, zebrawood and cocobola woods.

Yesterday I received a new 3m Versaflo M300 respirator.  For years I have been inhaling wood sanding, dust while preparing pieces of wood on my lathe and other wood projects I would make.  This is a self-contained respirator with a very good 3m filter.  I tried it on yesterday and it is terrific.  My glasses do not steam when I wear it and it should be a pleasure to wear while doing my wood projects.