WT #63, Hollow Form Vessel from “Rich Lightered” Ponderosa Pine with Turquoise inlay

Hollow Form Bottle from Rich Lighter Ponderosa Pine with Turquoise and Coal inlay.  Finished to 50,000 grit with Cyanoacrylate.  7” diameter x 11.25” tall with average 5/16” wall thickness.  I love the richness in color and finish with Ponderosa Pine that has become “Lightered”.  In the South they frequently call it “Fatwood”.  It is a process where the round resin from the tree’s root system collects in the stump and over many years solidifies and hardens.  This wood came from the stump of a tree that had been logged off over a hundred years ago on the Uncompahgre Plateau.