Twisted Mesquite

[Jim Glock]

Just wanted to share this twisted mesquite turning. Measures 16" tall and about 12" at the widest point. Minwax 209 Natural finish and buffed. jg

[David Dobbs]

nice very nice

[Steve Mawson]

That looks like a tuffy, good job.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Jim that is a cool piece.

[Greg Just]

that's cool - bet it made a lot of noise while on the lathe - looks like a propeller

[Curt Fuller]

That's really something! It looks like a hand. That was a great idea for an interesting piece of wood.

[Mark Cothren]

First of all, very unique piece and nice job turning it.


It looks like a hand.

Yep... the second and third pictures made me think of a ball glove getting ready to wrap around a baseball.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work! Very artistic! Way to think outside the normal form! Thanks for sharing!

[David E Keller]

Very cool... Pretty creative to find that form in that scraggly piece of wood

[Jim Kountz]

Wow. Just..........Wow!!

[charlie knighton]

very nice...

[alex carey]

wow that is an awesome piece, still don't understand how people sand things like this.

[Mike Minto]

so that's where my melon went! :)

[Rob Cunningham]

That's a really wild looking piece of wood. Very nice job.
I assume you sanded that by hand, off the lathe?

[charlie knighton]

mesquite cuts so well you can almost start with 300 grit

[Bill Bolen]

Guess one would call that very "organic"! I just call it a beauty. Nicly done keeping everything together too...Bill..

[Thomas Canfield]

Great looking piece. I am in the process of fiinishing something similar and it was an interesting turn with only 3 trunk sections but over 1/3 open section. You had a lot of branch sections hanging out there. I hope all your knuckles are still intack. I ended up doing a lot of heavy sanding after using the scraper for hollowing out and having so much air involved with the turned surface.

[Jim Glock]

Thanks so much for the compliments and comments. There was a lot of stationary hand sanding involved. I used wet/dry 320 on up to 1K using MinWax 209 Natural and then buffed. Again, thanks for the compliments. jg