Dan Hogan

Dan Hogan

Woodworking Biography:

I'm a semi-serious amateur and consider myself an intermediate skill level. I got interested in turning as a student in junior high school (woodshop was available as an elective then) and it's become a life-long interest. Other than the tips I pick up at Glendale Woodturners Guild meetings, I'm completely self-taught. About half my work these days in wood and the rest in alabaster/marble. I find both satisfying.

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This is a spectacular piece of Carob harvested in the LA area with burl
and curly characteristics. This bowl was hand-carved and has a finished
diameter of 12 inches and is 4 inches high.

Alabaster Bowl
November 07

Alabaster Tulip Flower
May 08

Buckeye Burl Buckeye burl from the Sierra foothills (9.5” Dia x 9.5” High).		Grapefruit Grapefruit enclosed form, turned and carved. This wood was salvaged from one of the last groves of citrus trees in the San Fernando Valley (14” Dia x 6” High).	Click on images below for full sized view
			Purpleheart form, closed form, 6 inch diameter. Inlayed with figured maple dragonfly.		Purpleheart bowl (9” Dia x 3” High) turned and carved from an end cut piece of the keel of the MV Irving Johnson owned by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute. Nautical theme of whale among the waves. This piece is in the collection of Mr. Bill Kelly.
Maple Curly maple bowl with carved/textured circumference (10” Dia x 4” High).		Turned and polished Utah orange alabaster with kingwood rim and foot. 5 inch diameter x 5 inches high. Italian white alabaster, turned, carved and polished. This material finishes with a translucence that looks a lot like ancient Greek glass. 10 inch diameter x 5 inches high Italian white alabaster with figured maple lip and foot. 9 inch diameter x 2.5 inches high	Turned, carved and polished Colorado marble. 10 inch diameter x 5 inches high.		California Buckeye, natural edge turning. Wall thickness is less then 0.1 inch. 9 inch diameter x 9 inches high.
			Southwest pueblo pottery form. Big leaf maple. 13.5 inch diameter x 7 inches high.		Big leaf maple closed form. This is one of the largest turnings I’ve ever made- 15 inch diameter x 11 inches high. Interior was carved from center hole about 1.25 inch diameter
Manzanita	Manzanita natural edge vase. Wood was found washed out of a Southern California canyon after a heavy El Nino storm (8.5” Dia x 10” High).		Maple Polished maple burl enclosed form (12” Dia x 4” High).
		Redwood Bowl (open form with natural edge): Redwood burl open form with natural edge (13.5” Dia x 10” High).		Redwood Redwood Bowl (Southwestern closed form): Polished redwood burl closed form, Southwestern design (8” Dia x 5.5” High).
Purpleheart Tulip shaped vase, turned and carved from purpleheart (8” Dia x 11” High).		Cherry Polished Carolina cherry burl closed form with natural edge finial (9.5” Dia x 8” High).	Purpleheart candlestick, turned, carved, and polished (5.5” Base Dia x 11.5” High).

last updated 07/09/2008