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Blimey, witchcraft, I make a reply to one image and as soon as it posts the image changes to an Elm bowl! :)

That Elm is pretty certainly Yew Woody, the grain is all wrong for Elm, and Elm doesn't have such an orange colour, plus the contrast between the sap and heart is bang on for Yew. Lovely bowl though! :)

I found some info on the heat treatment so I should be OK with that. Thanks Robbo!

Cheers Roger, I ordered some, could you describe the heat treating process please, I am not well up on that and could do with a little help. Many thanks! Thanks to you too jpt, I went to that site, but as you say, it isn't very easy to navigate! I appreciate you taking time to reply though. :)

Does anyone know where I can get a short (anything from 3ft down to a foot) length of 10mm (or similar) of M2 steel from? I'd like to make a turning tool from it.

Very nice Woody, the spalted Sycamore is particularly nice. I like the crescent finial, it goes well with the design.

An excellent example of a natural edged bowl there Woody. Nice one!

Nice! Number two looks very much like some sort of Mahogany.

They are really good Paul, lovely craftsmanship.

I had a very busy August but certainly hope to find time to do the rest of the years challenges.

That does look nice, I would say it is spalting, Seri Robinson says that bracket fungus like Turkey Tail (that's the US name for it) I think the Latin is Coriolus Versicolor, The many zoned polypore. This is the type of fungus responsible for the white areas of spalted timbers.

Good stuff folks! I was just too busy this month but hope to have a go at the next one.

I agree, it is a very nice piece.

That's very nice. :)

Thanks for all the nice comments folks, much appreciated :) You are right Mike, the monthly challenge is something many more members should have a go at as it really encourages you to "up your game" for want of a better phrase, I am completely certain that taking part in the challenge has been...

I looked at Guava trees yesterday (well, google images anyhow) I discounted it as the bark didn't seem to match, not that they were particularly good images though, perhaps it varies quite a bit too. Thanks for another interesting "What Wood" though Jim! Good fun. :)

Good suggestions guys! :)

Persuaded by my delightful daughter in law to join her in entering the craft section of the local county show I put in 4 items, 3 in the faceplate section, a neat little sycamore bowl, a coloured hollow form and the very large coloured hollow form. Having last months entry for the challenge...

This old gun stock came from a double barreled (side by side) Elephant rifle, hammer action and made by Cogswell and Harrison, the prestigious London gun makers, probably about the 1920's (that is a rough guess) I am pretty sure the guns calibre was a 500 express. The gun was given to my...

Bizarre, it looks like a softwood in all respects which would normally mean cones or similar as seed carriers rather than fruit. I looked at a load of exotic fruit tree timbers but so far found nothing that has bark like that. This is a puzzler.