Bowls are made from Teak wood.  Serving bowls are about 6 inch diameter
and about 3.5 inches tall. The main salad bowl is 10.5 inch diameter and
about 8inches tall.  Finished using  Behlen's Salad Bowl Finish.
A  set usually only has 4 serving bowls, but I decided to make 6
for the times that company is over during a holiday.
right photo shows the scroll sawn art work at the tips of the spoons.
The spoons were initially cut with a band saw. The bowls shown below are essentially the same except for only having a 4 serving bowl set.

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Both of these dishes were made of Redheart wood and I placed an old red glass dish in each to allow an accent. The dish on the right I inlayed a veneer ring around the bottom of the lid.  This broke up the difference of grain between the lid and the bow since they were not cut from the same block of wood. The bowl on the left was made with a smaller lid grasp, no inlay around the lid, and gave a slight different curvature of the lid and bowl. Both bowls were finished using poly finish for the hardness when the glass dish was set within.

This candy dish is made from Teak.  The base was made separately of the top
and then glued on.  I drew a pattern and taped it around the top and then used a
1/2 inch sanding drum placed in a drill press and sanded to the lines on the
paper pattern.

  
This coffee mug was turned on the lathe and the handle was scroll sawed and glued on. The wood is a fallen Silver Maple tree from my back yard that had been riddled with ants and beetles and rain water finally entered the wood. The letters are Walnut Veneer cut on the scroll saw between two waste pieces. The letters were stained with Ebony stain. The mug stands about 6 inches high and about 3 1/2 inches in diameter. The finish on the mug is SystemThree T-88 Structural Epoxy Adhesive. It was spread over in thin coats and then sanded and polished. The mug was made for a customer that owns a Christmas tree farm.

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