Scratch Ankle wrote:
In response to a request in rec.crafts.woodturning

This is a picture of a couple of things I did in dogwood. The one on the
left was turned green while the other two were turned about a year later.
The finish was just tung oil so I attribute the color difference to the
difference between wet and somewhat dried. I really liked the one on the
left and it was pure luck to catch the grain like I did. The one in the
middle had those two bad spots that were totally hidden until I started
turning. I finished it more as an exercise in fixing voids and cracks using
epoxy with some coloring than anything else. In the end it wasn't all that
bad but even though the log had aged a year, it warped while the green one
on the left did not at all.

This is about the extent of my experience with dogwood and I have little
overall experience anyway. Just started two years ago and haven't done a
lot the past year due to respiratory problems. I just had a dogwood that
needed to be cut down right at the same time I started turning.



The dogwood here in Georgia does not have prominent growth rings like
that. Here is a picture of a bowl I turned from it.


--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

This is precisely the sort of thing
that people who like this sort of
thing will like.