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Foto credits by Frieder Blickle
Woodturner Karl Heinz Windegger has discovered the unique potential of the graft union wood of apple trees for his craft. He turns this material into unique bowls and vases, each one a one-of-a-kind piece.
Karl Heinz Windegger from Lana in South Tyrol is both a fruit grower and a craftsman. “Nowadays, it’s very hard to find good apple wood for turning because the trees in orchards tend to be quite young. This means the wood is often either already decayed or too thin,” he explains.
Foto Credits by Karl Heinz Windegger
For bowls and vases, Windegger therefore uses the wood from the graft union at the lower end of the trunk, where the rootstock and scion have grown together.
Foto Credits by Karl Heinz Windegger
In this way, he has turned a necessity into a virtue – or more precisely, into bowls and vases: “The patterns are always surprising. There’s no distinctive grain pattern, and you can’t even see the characteristic grain of apple wood.”
Foto credits by Frieder Blickle
