WILLOWORKS LLC
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

Who is me? My name is Alan Willoughby and I have been doing amateur woodworking since the mid-80’s. I started out making some furniture for my home and eventually stopped altogether to spend more time on doing web sites. Last year I needed to get away from the computer so I went out to the shop to get things in order to start relaxing again. I bought a new table saw and started organizing. In November of 2012 I bought myself a small mini-lathe to try my hand at turning. I had never had so much fun with wood. I could throw away the tape measures, squares, and all the other tools you need to produce tight joints and square project. This piece of spalted wood came out of my pile and needed to be gone. I liked the figure but the light color was not what I wanted. I have brown dye which seldom gets used and I used that for something different. The inside is natural color. My wife really wanted me to do another natural edge bowl so this is what I did. The shape I was able to get out of that chunk needed a bit of enhancement. I first thought a tall decorative pedestal would look good but I ended up doing a short one out of walnut and gave it a coat of the same brown dye. I also picked out a lot of bug damage and filled with epoxy with black dye in it. Right now the bowl has a satin lacquer finish from a rattle can to seal the dye but it will be sprayed on my next spray lacquer day.