{"id":1242,"date":"2010-01-23T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2010-01-23T22:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:47:50","slug":"what-are-these-cool-turnings-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wood-conversations\/what-are-these-cool-turnings-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Woods and Beautiful Turnings, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Champagne<\/a>You’re going to get a kick out of these turnings.<\/p>\n

Some are inside out or exceptionally intricate.\u00a0 Others look like regular ol’ bowls.\u00a0 But all of them use a special and unusual wood that echos the beauty of the forest from which they came.<\/p>\n

Of course, let me not fail to mention these were turned using recycled car parts and broken machetes – the finest tools found in the Peruvian Amazon.<\/p>\n

To continue on with\u00a0Wood Turning in the Backwoods<\/a>, Jim King sent along a variety of pictures to share with you.\u00a0 Each one using an unusual wood that you’re sure to find stunning.\u00a0 And the turning concepts and designs aren’t all that typical, either.<\/p>\n

Here are the first four – I have 16 total, so keep this channel dialed in.<\/p>\n

Think you can name any of these woods just from looking at them?\u00a0 Jim will enlighten us to these woods down below.\n\t\t