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George, I grew up in Central Kansas (Great Bend) and understand your needing to look for wood. For turning wood, don't discount the local woods, elm and osage orange can be quite spectacular. ...

The 4/8/10 8/12/14 refer to the lengths of each segment in the arm of an articulated system.

Thanks Tom. That makes sense to me and explains alot.

I'm doing some research before jumping in and buying or building and articulated hollowing system. To those who have one or have used one, is there any real difference between the articulated arm...

The sap may be sticky but it doesn't work as a glue. When my son was around 6 he thought it'd make a great glue & he could get rich making & selling it (this was during his "Gordon Gecko - Greed is...

My inlaws had raccoons in their fireplace (came down the chimney to the basement fireplace). The exterminator, put the live traps on the roof and put a radio playing hard rock music in the fireplace...

Very cool Curt. Great use of leftovers.

John, A couple of doctors I know said they were to to say "There!" not "Oops", it's the difference between 'you meant to' and 'lawsuit'!

Bill

John,

There was a New Yankee Workshop episode where he steamed wood (for a chair back I think). I seem to remember him saying that they had less than a minute to get the wood out of the steamer...

If you only have this vortex, I have no sympathy for you folks. Try having 2. My other hobby is bonsai. For years I'd see shrubs and small gnarly trees and think, "I wonder if the neighbor would...

I made several pink pens for my wife's office (the state's breast & cervical cancer program) and tried painting tubes white or red. The white tubes were much lighter pink and the ones with red tubes...

Truly beautiful pieces. I read your post twice before I realized those are the tops and bottoms. Made them even more amazing.

Silver Lake is a nice small community & friends who live there like the schools. Sherwood Lake is in the overdeveloped part of the county (in my opinion). I live in the SE part of the county and...

When I made mine, I bought a 1x8tpi nut (fits my headstock), drilled and carved out a hole in a block of hardwood (I think it was oak) to fit the nut, epoxied the nut in the hole. Then after...

Very nice, but what is LVL?

Hope all goes well with the surgery & a speedy recovery. I've had a couple of run ins with the table saw (25 years apart) and luckily only a few stitches both times.

Bill

Thanks for the compliments. I really liked the first one too and really debated keeping it for ourselves. But when our son opened it, and went ohh & wow and was excited about it (never can tell...

My wife thought it would be nice to give each of our kids and our pet sitter peppermills for Christmas.

From the left they are Myrtle (actually Bay Laurel if I remember correctly & it was from a...

Elm sure seems to have alot going for it looks wise. Don't water elms grow basically in standing water most of the year? I know bonsai folks like to collect them in the summer when the water has...

Thanks Rusty, I'd like that.

Thanks for all the comments. It's not my first bowl and if I hadn't like the what the wood was showing, I'd probably would have trashed it early on because it was such a pain to turn. I did also...

Thanks Steve. I'll remember the bag trick next time, especially since I don't think the wife will accept "But honey, I really want to go see your mother again, but this bowl needs my attention!"
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I've been lurking & reading for a few months so I'm finally diving in with a bowl that was a love/hate project. It started off as a dryed piece of elm from my firewood pile that had been laying...

Beautiful piece and one to be proud of. The one thing that stood out to me was the bulge in the finial. As a fairly new turner, I pulled the photo into Photoshop to see how it would look with some...

That is one the prettiest pieces I've ever seen. When you asked about a name my first idea was "Black Ice". Then as I scroll down reading the responses I saw Steve Mawson came up with the same...