RS Rarewoods Woodturning

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To purchase, please note the Serial Number and contact us through the contact form, directly through email or phone. Payment can be made through:

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Postage and packing within the mainland UK (Second class and signed for) is included and will use recycled boxes and packaging. Unless otherwise stated.

Gift boxes and packaging is available at additional cost, which will depend on size.

Live edged crotch bowl.

Large, richly grained English Walnut bowl, with a flat(ish) edge from where the tree was dismantled after storm damage in a Cheltenham back garden.

Serial no. RW240

26 cm w x 14 cm h

£90

Large pedestal bowl

Large, knotty, end-grain turned monkey puzzle bowl with great features.

From a front-garden tree in Stoke Orchard, Cheltenham that had to be felled for safety purposes.

Serial no. RW239

30 cm w x 20 cm h

£275

Deep 'globe' bowl

Feature-rich, live edged dish of Applewood. Natural knot hole even some beetle tracks visible where the bark has separated.

Taken from a former orchard near Pershore in Worcestershire. The family run orchard used to supply Bulmers Cider.

Serial no. RW237

18 cm w x 16 cm h

Sold

Live edged, crotch bowl

Feature-rich, live edged laburnum bowl recovered from a garden in Hatherley , Cheltenham.

Serial no. RW234

21 cm w x 12 cm h

SOLD

Shallow platter / dish

Shallow, feature-rich, live edged dish of spalted Ornamental Cherry from a friends garden in Churchdown, Cheltenham.

Serial no. RW232

27 cm w x 3.5 cm h

£50

Oak Beam Bowl.

Recovered from old barn in Somerset after it caught fire! The barn was approximately 300-400 years old. Apart from cleaning dirt and smoke damage from the outside, it has been left in its original state from its existence as a barn beam.

It is quite heavy!

Serial no. RW231

15 cm w x 16cm l x 10 cm h

£55

Thin walled, live edged, deep bowl

Gifted wood by a very kind gentleman who waited for me to set up at the 2024 Friends of Sandford Park Music Festival. From his own garden, and just wanted someone to make something with the wood!

Wood type unknown.

Serial no. RW230

15 cm w x 14 cm h

£45

Oak Beam Bowl.

Recovered from old barn in Somerset after it caught fire! The barn was approximately 300-400 years old. Apart from cleaning dirt and smoke damage from the outside, it has been left in its original state from its existence as a barn beam.

It is quite heavy!

Serial no. RW224

19.5 cm w x 22.5 cm l x 9.5 cm h

Sold

Natural edged (no bark) Elm bowl

It's got a flat end from where it was cut by Somerset District Council as part of tree management and a crack which developed during turning, filled with woodturners epoxy to maintain integrity.

Serial no. RW223

17 cm w x 10.5 cm h

£45

Part live edged English Walnut globe bowl.

Richly grained 'whole branch' bowl, maintaining the bark patterns on 2 opposing sides

Turned from a tree that was taken down by a storm in 2020 in Wood Stanway, near Broadway in the Cotswolds.

Serial no. RW222

18 cm w x 16 cm h

Sold

Live edged laburnum bowl

Richly grained crotch bowl, that pictures just don't do justice to!

Turned from a tree that had to be taken down in a garden in Hatherley, Cheltenham

Serial no. RW221

21 cm w x 13 cm h

Sold

Part live edged and included yew bowl

Richly grained with high contrast between heartwood, sapwood and bark.

Turned from a gifted 'lump' of yew from a fellow woodturner in the Peak District.

The yew tree, in a Peak District village church yard had to undergo some serious 'management'! and the useful bits were rescued from the tree-surgeons chipper.

Serial no. RW210

20 cm w x 10 cm h

Sold

Live edged and included spalted ash bowl

Turned from a storm-felled tree on a friends woodland in Devon

Serial no. RW196

20 cm w x 23cm h

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Live sided and included applewood bowl

Turned from a tree had been down a while, and has some great beetle tracks on one part of the side.

Taken from a former orchard near Pershore in Worcestershire. The family run orchard used to supply Bulmers Cider.

Serial no. RW194

17 cm w x 7.5cm h

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Live edged English walnut bowl

Turned from a branch point (crotch). The tree had been down a while, and stored with a view to becoming firewood, the resultant crack has been filled with black woodturners epoxy.

The tree had become unstable in a garden in Cheltenham, and I was offered a piece.

Serial no. RW193

21.5 cm w x 10 cm h x 24.5 cm l

£60

Live edged applewood bowl

Turned from a branch point (crotch). The tree had been down a while, and has some great beetle tracks on one part of the rim.

Taken from a former orchard near Pershore in Worcestershire. The family run orchard used to supply Bulmers Cider.

Serial no. RW192

21 cm w x 12 cm h

Sold

Live edged long applewood platter.

Turned from a branch lengthways. it was like having a propeller on the lathe!

Taken from a former orchard near Pershore in Worcestershire. The orchard used to supply Bulmers Cider.

Serial no. RW191

15 cm w x 14 cm h x 31 cm long

£70

Live edged ripply ash bowl. Really shimmers in the light. Rescued from a large pile of wood being given away as firewood after storm damage. The tree was so damaged this is the only piece of wood suitable for tuning from 4 Landrovers full of timber!

Serial no. RW189

21 cm w x 14 cm h

Sold

Large pedestal bowl, Made in monkey puzzle wood from a tree in Stoke Orchard Cheltenham that had to be felled for safety purposes.

Serial no. RW186

28.5 cm w x 19.5 cm h

Sold

Simple applewood bowl with distinctive grain.

Taken from a former orchard near Pershore in Worcestershire. The orchard used to supply Bulmers Cider.

Serial no. RW185

19 cm w x 8.5 cm h

Sold

Oak 'beam bowl'

Oak belfy beam with bowl turned in top and original surfaces and pog hole features left. Taken from a section of a belfry oak beam from Ashover Church in the Peak District, build 1350-1419. This beam is from the original installation over 600 years ago, the oak tree would have been old when is was cut down for the timber.

Serial no. RW184

22 cm w x 6 cm h

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Oak 'beam bowl'

Oak belfy beam with bowl turned in top with original hewn surfaces, peg hole and notch features left.

Taken from a section of a belfry oak beam from Ashover Church in the Peak District, build 1350-1419. This beam is from the original installation over 600 years ago, the oak tree would have been old when is was cut down for the timber.

Serial no. RW183

22 cm w x 6 cm h

Sold

Shallow, feature-rich, live edged dish of spalted Ornamental Cherry from a friends garden in Churchdown, Cheltenham.

Serial no. RW158

27cm w x 13.5cm h

Sold.

Large, deep and footed end-grain bowl.

Made in monkey puzzle wood from a tree in Stoke Orchard Cheltenham than had to be felled for safety purposes.

Serial no. RW148

27cm w x 13.5cm h

Sold

Deeper end grain bowl.

Made in monkey puzzle wood from a tree in Stoke Orchard Cheltenham than had to be felled for safety purposes.

Serial no. RW136

23.5cm w x 14cm h

Sold

Wide and shallow end grain dish.

Made in monkey puzzle wood from a tree in Stoke Orchard Cheltenham than had to be felled for safety purposes.

Serial no. RW135

22cm w x 6cm h

Sold

Ring and jewellery bowl.

Made in oak wood from cabinet makers off-cut bin - destined for landfill or burning!

Serial no. RW130.

14cm w x 5cm h

Sold

Ring and jewellery bowl.

Made in beech wood from Devon.

Serial no. RW129.

16.5cm w x 4.5cm h

Sold

Commission design and customer supplied oak.

Serial no. RW122.

19cm w x 10cm h

Sold

Live edged ash bowl with bark inclusion features,

Wood came from a friends storm damaged tree in Devon.

Serial no. RW121.

21.5cm w x 12cm h

Sold

Bowl, end grain, made from a monkey puzzle tree that had to be felled in Stoke Orchard Cheltenham for safety.

Serial no. RW105

21 cm w x 11 cm h

Sold

Flat topped and sided bowl, with inclusions. As sawn from ash die-back infected tree in Wales.

Serial no. RW102

12 cm w x 6 cm h

Sold

Bowl, end grain, made from a monkey puzzle tree that had to be felled in Stoke Orchard, Cheltenham for safety.

Serial no. RW101

21 cm w x 11 cm h

Sold

Live edged ash bowl, taken from the other half of the log used for RW102. Felled due to infection, Wales.

Serial no. RW100

15.5 cm w x 7 cm h

Sold

Deep live edged and live sided bowl in spalted beech. wood rescued llanfrynach (Brecon, South Wales) log pile.

Serial no. RW095

17 cm w x 10 cm h

Sold

Turned edge, spalted fruitwood with bark inclusions.

Unwanted pre-felled tree collected from a friends garden in Southam, Cheltenham

Serial No. RW022

17 cm w x 9.5 cm h

I've kept this one!

Turned edge crotch bowl with a rounded rim feature.

Unsure of the type of wood, but it has a glorious deep glimmer in sunlight!

Serial No. RS026

15 cm w x 10 cm h.

Sold

Bowl

Turned edge, lightly spalted, ornamental cherry.

Unwanted pre-felled tree collected from a friends garden in Churchdown, Cheltenham

Serial No. RW032

16cm x 7.5cm

Sold

Bowl, 'flared' lip

Turned edge, english yew with many knots and grain features.

Gifted blank. fantastic lustre in the sunlight.

Serial No. RW034

19cm x 10.5cm

Not For Sale

Bowl, mystery wood!

Flat topped, live sided, knotty & bark inclusion

Collected from a friends garden clearance in Churchdown, Gloucestershire.

Serial No. RW035

22cm long x 6.5cm high

£55

Bowl,

Live edge beech bowl

Taken from a larger log given by a friend with woodland in Devon.

Serial No. RW040

21.5cm long x 4.5cm high.

Sold

Bowl,

Live edge, graduated lip bowl in chestnut

Gifted blank.

Serial No. RW041

21cm x 6.5cm

Not For Sale

Bowl,

Heavier fruitwood crotch bowl, with deep natural cracks (branch separation points) and bark inclusion.

Serial No. RW049

17cm w x 5.5cm h

Sold

Live edge bowl in ash.

Seasoned log gifted by a friend with woodland in Devon.

Serial No. RW053

20 cm x 10 cm

Not for Sale

Yarn bowl.

Ornamental, lightly spalted cherry bowl with a special cutout to allow the yarn to feed from the ball without it rolling away.

Unwanted pre-felled tree collected from a friends garden in Churchdown, Gloucesteshire

Serial No. RW055

17 cm x 10 cm

Sold

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