http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/
is the location of where these pictures came from. You can see what I am working towards

The pumpkins shown are made in strangler Fig that had been out in the weather for about two months. The normally white wood changed drastically. The flower is made out of rose wood. That flower was supposed to be a pitcher, but I curled the lip wrong, so to save the wood, I made it into a flower. I sold the flower and one pumpkin to my boss.


My pumpkins and my flower are on the right of the picture


two of my pumpkins and a better view of my flower


my four pumpkins, one hidden, and my flower


me holding two of my pumpkins



me holding my flower

http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/
Here is where these and other pictures can be found


This is me holding my duckbowl and goblet



this is my duck The goblet is behind the duck

The goblet is norfolk island pine with two rings around the stem

The duck bowl is rose wood with a painted basswood head. I sanded much of the paint off. The eyes are buttons of the right kind.

 
Roger...

That is jaw-dropping STUNNING work!

Absolutely, positively, no-scat gorgeous, too!

*CJ

PS: If your studio is ever robbed, do NOT come lookin' in Texas for your pieces. Nope. Uh uh. They won't be here. Promise.

November Turning Club Meeting photos

http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/
where you would find thes and other club pictures



Me holding a wreath and a blank the wreath hidden


me holding my turkey bowl


my turkey bowl from the front and the oak and Mahogany bell I made


my turkey and wreath behind the star not a good picture but you can see it there.


wreath in lower right corner


The oak and Mahogany bell on upper left corner

January turning club photos
you can find additional club pictures at http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/


A picture of me holding my goblet

Me holding my plates. The plates are made from yellow pine


My plates with the ringed goblet behind it. The goblet is made from Christmas Tree wood.


goblet is quite visible with the edge of my plates showing

Roger,

I haven't looked at this board in months and so didn't see any of these pictures when you first posted them. You do beautiful work! I especially love your candlesticks and goblets and salad bowls. I assume these pieces can actually be used for food and aren't just decorative...or are they?

--Linda

The pieces I named, are the ones I did. The other pieces are by other club members.

The coatings we use are for the most part, food safe. I use varnish for most of my pieces and the varnish is food safe as long as you cannot smell it. some also use salad bowl oils. As to the rest of the pieces, some that are decorative might have a finish that would not take a punishment. My varnishes are thin so there they are not really designed to take abuse. They can be used, though. My plates, for example, arebest hand washed and even better to hold paper plates, if you feel the need to use them.
Some pieces, by their nature, are strictly for looks.
Thanks for your interest.

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My varnishes are thin so there they are not really designed to take abuse. They can be used, though. My plates, for example, arebest hand washed and even better to hold paper plates, if you feel the need to use them.

Roger,

Wow...I never even thought about putting them in a dishwasher! It's not that I have anything against dishwashers, but I haven't used one in so long I don't even think in those terms any more. The kitchen where I am now is too small for a dishwasher, too small for much of anything, in fact.

I like the idea of using paper plates with the wooden ones. That would be great for a picnic where you wouldn't want to bring anything breakable, and you could also use the cheapie biodegradable paper plates as liners instead of the styrofoam ones. Those are the only kind of paper plates I ever use anyway.

Then when you got the wooden plates home you could just rinse them off and dry them, and only wash them with soap occasionally.

--Linda

For real use, I would use a vegitable oil rather than a varnish. Periodically, especially after a really messy use and hard cleaning, just wipe more oil on and it is ready to go. One could very well care for them as you would a wooden cutting board.

I like the ring pattern that yellow pine has, so I use that wood for my plates. Depending on how I position the wood before I start, I can either get an hour glass or a oval in the bottom of the plate.

I've since painted a tree on each of the plates I made. That makes them a little extra special. Whether they will sell would be something different. I planned on having twelve plates for the show, but will actually be lucky to have four let alone six.

This month's pictures are going to be really good. I will have a rooster (the best bird bowl I have ever made) and possibly two ducks to show off.

February turning club photos

http://goldcoastwoodturners.org/where to find these and other pictures


MIssed view of my chicken bowl and duck in background


Full view of my chicken bowl



My two duck bowls the one with the neck sticking out is in sea grape


my fairy at the stage she was that night. Base is sea Grape



Me holding the fairy carving


Me holding duck and rooster

quote:

For real use, I would use a vegitable oil rather than a varnish. Periodically, especially after a really messy use and hard cleaning, just wipe more oil on and it is ready to go. One could very well care for them as you would a wooden cutting board.

Roger,

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond, but I've been distracted by about a million other things as usual. I didn't know you needed to oil a wooden cutting board. I'm disappointed with my bamboo cutting board, which looked so pretty when I bought it but is now starting to warp even though it's still fairly new. It's made out of laminated bamboo in three pieces, with the laminated strips running lengthwise on the center piece and crosswise on the two end pieces. Now the end pieces have warped and are no longer level with the center, and that happened in just a few months. It's made in China as you might expect.

I can't afford to buy any of your pieces, especially right now when I've just had a major financial disaster, but you might want to consider Etsy, the new marketplace for handcrafted wares, as a possible venue for your woodwork. Etsy is best described as a perpetual online crafts fair, and I should probably start a new note dedicated just to Etsy, as a means of introduction to anyone who doesn't know about them already. I just registered with them a few minutes ago.

--Linda

quote:

Originally posted by Raksha:

quote:

For real use, I would use a vegitable oil rather than a varnish. Periodically, especially after a really messy use and hard cleaning, just wipe more oil on and it is ready to go. One could very well care for them as you would a wooden cutting board.

--Linda

There is so much common knowledge that is no longer common any more, simply because it was superseded by new technologies. Few of us know anything about the care of leather. We are so used to plastics and cheep metals that we don't know the proper care of wood products. Yes, cutting boards are often coated with oil, but many are used dry. There are advantages and disadvantages either way. The oil protects the wood from much mess that would get into the wood, but the oil might be a carrier of germs.
Researchers found that wood has a mechanism for removing germs. the natural antibiotics that trees have when alive, still works after the wood has gone through what people put it through. the germs disappear from the surface, not to be seen again.
For an oil, Mineral oil or a special salad bowl oil is often used. Vegetable oils are also used fairly often. My guess is to scrub it throughly periodically and then re-oil it.

Sorry for the size of these pictures.
if you do not wish to scroll back and fourth, you can see them at a better size at http://home.earthlink.net/~rogerstegman/

March 16th 2008, the lighthouse point yacht club presented an invitation only art show with 50 artists. They have done this for 14 years. My dad was invited to the show for several years. In 2000, I was in as a guest with my dad, and had the end of his table for my carvings on display. I expanded into half the table in my dad's last year. This year and last year, since my dad's death, I have had the table to myself. These pictures are of my table.



the right end view of my table.


right middle view of my table


left middle view of my table


left end view of the table.

If you have any questions about any carving or turning, I will try to answer it. Most of these are still in stock so I am willing to nagotiate about sales of any you are interested in (oir I can make something like it if I don't have it any more)<g>

These and pictures of other wood turners can be found at
http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/



My wooden carved flowers. the left one with rings is what these started as.


This is a picture of my bird house in Sea Grape wood and the baby rattle in Norfolk Island Pine



Picture of Me with my bird house

Picture of me with the baby rattle

Roger,
Your work is just spectacular! Thanks for sharing your photos.

-T

http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/
where these pictures can be found

We had a turning challenge, weed vases.
A bud vase has the glass tube to keep the flower or plant alive for a while
A weed vase is for silk flowers or dried plants (or in my case, carved flowers)


my vase hiding well behind better work


my bud vase behind better work


me holding my vase

Hello Roger,

Compliments on your artistry and craftsmanship. Wonderful!

John,

I like the work done by others, than my stuff.
Every month, I bring what I consider great items. I then see my work next to theirs, and see that I have to work a bit harder to improve. The "competition" is desperately needed for me to get better. It is also fun to see where I am at the moment.
Next month should have some really good items. I am making a bowl that looks like it is simply made up of leaves. It is a lot of work but is really fun challenge to make. I am learning how not to do things, every step of the way.

Thanks for the compliments.
Roger

http://goldcoastwoodturners.org/
This is where these pictures, and pictures of the works of others, can be seen.



My Beer stein showing the handle. The rabbit chased the man up the tree.



My leaf bowl


a closeup of my leaf bowl


Me and my beer stein



Me and my leaf bowl


Me and the club president with the leaf bowl

http://goldcoastwoodturners.org/Newsletters/NewsletterIndex.htm
Select the AUGUST 2008 NEWSLETTER. It is a PDF file. This has a mention of my hand, a picture of me with my leaf bowl, and a write up about me as turner of the month. I have to admit that I wrote the ABOUT THE ARTIST and it was very lightly edited. I did make a mistake. It says that I started wood carving in Junuary 2007, and it should say January 2000.

The November Club Meeting

These, and other pictures can be found at,
http://www.goldcoastwoodturners.org/




the Go-by, a blank, and my deer, A natural edged bell, and two cookie presses. Also my vase in the back.



My lidded vase with finial in view




me holding vase,


me holding bell,


me holding cookie presses,


me holding deer

Bumping this up so it does not get lost
compare my size in these pictures and in the newer batch of pictures of my work and of me. I am losing weight.

Posting this here to bump this string up so it does not get lost

A picture of me and my table display
At the lighthouse point yacht club art show.




March 28 2010

To keep this web site from getting too big, they remove the older notes. To keep these pictures from disappearing, I am adding this note to it.
I stole this from a series of notes I posted on another board.
These are my web pages that have pictures on them


These are the web sites I have with something interesting on. I have more web sites to fill, but not yet had the time.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rastegman/
This has a picture of a couple of my earlier flowers. The roses are something like I sent Nancy.

http://home.earthlink.net/~rstegman/
pictures of me at shows and waxy


http://home.earthlink.net/~roger.stegman/
me and my carvings

At Prodigy
(you will have to scroll side to side to see some of these pages.)

http://pages.prodigy.net/rstegman/
carvings and drawings
http://pages.prodigy.net/stegman/
incomplete carvings
http://pages.prodigy.net/roger-stegman/
railroad drawings
http://pages.prodigy.net/stegman.roger/
my railroad layout
http://pages.prodigy.net/stegman-roger/
christmas cards and paintings


http://hometown.aol.com/rstegm...yhomepage/index.html
art show picture





These are my Christmas ornament pictures. If you download the pictures, you can see them full screen. Earthlink allows me to set the image size when viewing. Prodigy, as you see in the note above, has them full size, bigger than the screen.... I have not worked out how to shrink them through the web builder program.

http://home.earthlink.net/~stegmanroger/
My Christmas Ornaments



pictures of Waxt dragon.
home.earthlink.net/~roger-stegman/

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