About Us What's New? Current Projects Leatherwork The Distaff Side Dark Age Re-enactment Woodturning Contact Us Site Map	Bowls Platters and Pots Miscellaneous The following are arranged by wood type. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger picture; use the back button on your browser to return to this page. Apple: Ash:   Beech:   Spalted beech; spalting occurs where the wood has started to rot along the grain, leaving dark marks. Bubinga: this is an exotic hardwood, the dust of which is poisonous. Cherry:   Green cherry: this wood was unseasoned when turned, and cracked as it dried out. Cocobolo, another exotic hardwood Goncalo alves: Cedar of lebannon: London plane:   Oak:   An unturned 'blank' of olive wood   Olive wood, turned: Padauk(pronounced 'pa-dook'): Purpleheart (yes, it really is this colour!): Sycamore, a very pale wood: Spalted sycamore: Pear: Putujumu: This was turned from a blank made of a block of padauk glued to a block of sycamore:
Last updated 5th April 2004