Turning Bytes handcrafted wood bowls and vessels
Handcrafted Wood Bowls & Woodturning Gallery
Browse one-of-a-kind hand-turned wood bowls and vessels, or explore guides on the craft of woodturning — from selecting spalted maple and cherry to finishing with tung oil and beeswax.
Kevin Tambascio
I'm a woodturner in Northeast Ohio making one-of-a-kind handcrafted wood bowls, vessels, and art pieces from locally sourced and salvaged timber. Each piece is turned by hand on a lathe — no two are ever alike — and finished to bring out the natural character of the grain, figure, and spalting.
I work primarily with spalted maple, cherry, white ash, and reclaimed wood harvested from the forests and tree services of Summit and Cuyahoga counties. The "defects" others discard — beetle tracks, zone lines, natural checks, live edges — are the features I seek out. My philosophy is minimalist intervention: let the wood dictate the form.
More about the craft →Wood Species & Craft
Every handcrafted wood bowl starts with understanding the tree it came from. Spalted maple brings dramatic zone lines and soft color variation. Cherry deepens to a rich amber over time. White ash offers bold, open grain suited to larger statement pieces. Reclaimed and salvaged wood adds history that a fresh blank never can. All pieces are finished with food-safe, professional-grade oils — polymerized tung oil, Rubio Monocoat, or traditional linseed and beeswax — chosen for each species and intended use.