Woodturning - Hard as Rock !! 

This piece is absolutely exquisite! I love that you gave it a nice "foot" rather than cutting it off. Beautiful work! ❤❤❤

I like that you show the actual pace of work rather than having it all sped up but also enjoy that you speed it up for the sake of time. Beautiful work.

WOW!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!WOW!!!!!!!. The grain in this piece is absolutely amazing.

Super glad you did not fill the inclusions with resin, you allowed the beauty of nature come through. Excellent!

Outstanding piece! The grain and live edge are gorgeous.

At 7:26 I stopped and just said WOW! That grain is just plain gorgeous! I'll watch the rest but I was sold right there. I REALLY enjoy what you do. Thank yiou. --- LATER --- I did watch the rest and this is stunning. Thank you for NOT doing resin on this. Knowing when to quit is a very special skill.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of that little hedgehog that was hiding on the shelf behind this burl when you first took it down, but today's project might be my new favorite. I love the way you sanded the inclusions to make them part of the beauty of the piece instead of flaws.

Your work inspired me to try different things with my lathe. I just got a sphere jig in the mail. I can’t wait to work with it.

Oftentimes less is more, and this is absolutely one of them. Beautiful, simply beautiful

Beautiful wood made a beautiful vase, Andy. I like the foot you left on it. I also thought it was interesting to see you sanding those cracks. Bill

What a beautiful work of art!!

Well Andy, this may have been "Hard As Nails" but with your extremely talented and gifted hands, you turned this ordinary piece of wood into a masterpiece! Bravo Maestro!

Pretty piece of wood. You used a great design as well. Super piece.

Вы удивительный мастер, очередное прекрасное изделие с безупречно выраженным рисунком созданным природой и искусно представлен мастером. Браво👏👏👏👍👍👍

What a fun and beautiful vase. I wish you would've shown us the finiished inside at the very end. The earlier glimpse seemed to be even prettier grain than the outside. That and shone a flashlight inside the vase in a slightly darkened room. It would've been interesting to see the effect of light on the wall being emitted from the cracks. Even still, very much enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing.

Stunning work on a beautiful piece of Oak Burl. I really enjoyed this one.

Wow!!! I love this piece, the grain is just amazing

Beautiful wood and work. ❤ 😊

What a STUNNING piece great shape and fantastic grain patterns you dont half get some lovely bits of wood

This is perhaps my favorite of all the pieces I’ve watched you produce. Love that you took the time to clean up and finish the individual cracks. Nice composition, beautiful result. Well done indeed.

It’s so beautiful! Love everything about it! ❤

What a start to the new year….a beautiful creation from a dull dried out stump ♥️ Happy New Year to all 🎉

What a beautiful vase Andy flawless as usual

So happy that you didn't fill the inclusions with epoxy! Stunning! Thank you!

Another excellent piece, shape is brilliant!

Wow, what a beautiful piece, looks great. 😊

The grain is very, very! For me…looking at the piece of wood you started from, I had no idea that was hiding in there. You did. You animated it and brought it to life. Beautiful Creation, it lives once again!

Beauty sans bling. Totally compelling and satisfying. You have such an uncanny eye for line, and form, and overall esthetic impact, Andy! 👍

I like resin fills, but I really enjoy letting the natural grain and figuring being allowed to speak for themselves. Well done, sir 😁

Very beautiful. Wonderful work

Wait, wasn't that a rock?! Lol. I love the bottom section that looks like it's being turned and pulled like silly putty but it's petrified wood turned into a gorgeous masterpiece.

Lovely work Andy - I'm glad you highlighted the inclusions rather than fill them as they really compliment the figure of the Oak!

It’s a stunning piece!

Beautiful piece once again Andy! Gotta build me a steady rest! Thanks for the inspiration and stay safe.

Absolutely gorgeous texture to the wood.

That is absolutely gorgeous and I love the wood you used. ❤❤🎉🎉😊

Dude, you can make any old lump look special.

I was impressed that you could create this vase with the way the wood looks,kinda rough to me.but your the master.great video as always.just keep doing what your doing.👍👍👍😎😎😎

Well done Andy; they are not defects{inclusions} but, beauty marks!!!

im vry happy for u congratulations. the traveler has become one of my favs ever since the first video i watched. thank u for all that u have done and will continue to do

A really beautiful piece Andy! The grain and rich color are fantastic!

In a way this is one of my favorite examples of your art because all the flaws and imperfections make it somehow perfect.

Another beautiful piece Andy, well done.

You can hear how hard the wood is by the sound of the turning chisel. Wonderful work, Andy👍. Best regards from Hans and Cheers 🍻🇦🇹.

Stunning! It's a piece of art! ❤

Loved the shape and the natural edge! Stunning work!

I bought a new phone awhile ago now and I’d lost all the RU-vid channels I used to watch. Getting older I couldn’t remember your name / RU-vid channel but thank goodness I found you again 😅 another beautiful creation by you ❤

Very pretty! I like the clip where you install the steady rest. Thank you for showing it. I also like the sanding disc modification too. Very ingenious.

That is a very creative use of a woodworm screw in a chuck on a surface that is not in perfect contact with the jaws of the chuck. I never thought to try that. The extended jam chuck that you used to detail the bottom of the vase was something that I need to try.

What a fab piece of wood, your hard work paid off its stunning .😊

Favorite 2x channel on youtube Beautiful as always, Andy

Thank you thank you thank you for NOT filling the holes with resin or whatever... This is of course Very beautiful!

Beautiful! 👍💪✌

A peppy editing rhythm and much better "interior" lighting. The vase was really nice. I enjoyed the video.

Beautiful piece of wood. Nicely turned. Thank you.

Wow, as always your work is just fantastic Hours and hours of work to make such a beautiful peace

you are an amazing woodturner

Stunning Andy absolutely Stunning!

Very beautiful Andy.

Beautiful piece

At 5:13 the striations in the wood makes it look like the piece was twisted. ❤

Very nice grain on the burl. really like the color. Great job. Thank you.

Beautiful result as always. I love the look of that new tool. I assume it improves the stability of what's being turned. It looks like the wood workers answer to the flux capacitor.

Boy you sure do detail finish work. I know what I’d do with that beautiful piece. I’d put one of those fake candle sticks down inside and watch a beautiful glow shine through the little crevices 😻 nice wrk Andy. ❤️

It might have been hard for you to turn but we love how it turned out!!! It's very beautiful ANdy and an excellent job turning it!!!

You, sir, are quite an artist.

Hi Andy. Happy New Year. You've got the steadiest carving hands I've ever seen. Perfect steady lines. Kinda Mesmerizing.

Beautiful, Andy.

What a way to start the year! Great piece!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Andy!!! your talent & creativity never ceases to amaze me, I often refer to your pieces as conversation pieces as they inspire comments on their beauty & workmanship...from shaping to finish, this piece is another beautiful work of art, the finish brought the woodgrain alive!!!

Please make The Elder Wand from the Harry Potter franchise. Oh and make it out of elder wood please. I saw another wood worker do it and I know you could do it a lot better. You’re my favorite wood worker to watch.

Well done. Nice work Sir.

Nice one Mr P. Wish you & yours the best for 2024 sir 🎉

Salutations à vous d'Algérie, un très merveilleux chef-d'œuvre

Stunning 🎉❤

Sehr sehr schön geworden, Andi!!! Mega!

I like that you decided not to use resin another beautiful piece ❤

Big, bold and beautiful, congratulations

Really amazing work, Andy! Really stunning piece!!! 😃 Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Beautiful piece! Well done.

You saw the beauty emerge and you let it stand on it's own merit. Well done.

That is exquisite! The shape works perfectly with the grain and the oil brings everything out. As they say these days, it "pops"! It doesn't matter what you do: what piece of wood you have; what shape it starts and ends as; what level of simplicity or intricacy; what outcome you require; whether you use those swirling colours in the resin or "just" a single colour painted on it in certain places, or what finish you use (e.g. this beautiful oil), absolutely everything you do becomes a stunning work of art. I don't know if you have a physical (rather than digital) gallery, but you should have one to show prospective buyers the works in their very best light. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your online presentation, but you're relying on _us_ to have sufficiently good screens to see things close to how they really are! I wish I'd learned about wood turning decades ago when I was physically capable of doing it. (I knew _of_ it, but as with so many things back then, doing woodwork at school as a girl would have required so many hoops to jump through and my mother wouldn't have been happy about it either! Dad, on the other hand, let me use his tools - including his jigsaw, drill, etc - from about 7 years-old 😅. I wasn't allowed to cook until I was about 10 because I couldn't see over the tops of the various pans. Safety first!) Now various disabilities would stop me even trying. Arthritic hands don't let me knit or embroider anymore, and I used to do single thread embroidery with the smallest, sharpest needles - about as intricate as that gets - and other techniques such as pulled threads (making the first snip of thread was scary!). Given that, "shaving" the external shape of a vase would be impossible after about 30 seconds. Had I learned back then, at least I'd have had a few decades of being so creative! Well, _trying_ to be so creative 😂😂😂. Still, you do inspire me to get my watercolour pencils out, now and then. Even my oil paints. So thank you for keeping that faint internal light of creativity switched on. I _genuinely_ mean every word of this and I am _genuinely_ grateful. Sorry for the essay, but again, thank you for sharing your awesome talent.

I love it. ❤❤❤❤

I like what you did here, my reasoning is that when you think of how many Oak beamed buildings have all their cracks and shrinkage on show and remain standing, it shows the longevity of the wood. The durability of Oak, warts and all should be celebrated not hidden, both yourself and Olivier Gomis appear unfazed by the natural aging and the imperfections it can cause.

Beautiful as always and nice that you only oil your work to it's beauty out and not paint your beautiful work

Very beautiful pice. Thanks for sharing

Stunning

Absolutely beautiful 😍😍

Awesome!

Amazing as always! All the best to you.

Gorgeous ❤

Nice one 👍

Very cool work Andy as usual

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

My brother has worked a lot of Apitong. His advice: work it with metalworking tools- TiN, cobalt, tungsten carbide. That’s my idea of hard wood.

Very nice piece

Awesome work brother

Beautiful piece sir.

Lovely

Nice! ❤