GLENN THOMAS
01-19-2010, 9:41 PM
As my wood turnings have improved over the last few years my wife has started displaying them in her curio cabinet. Every time her friends visit she like to show off my work. I have always felt that my wife's opinion of my work was a little more that biased, but in any case she and her friends seem to think I should try some craft fairs just to see what would happen.
Because of this my wife has made it her mission to find wood for me and she has done an excellent job. She has also used Facebook to let everyone she knows to be on the look out for wood. Some friends of hers recently cut down a large oak tree and in the process they destroyed their neighbors cherry tree. Well the neighbors got mad, cut up the cherry tree and threw it over the fence. Good for me! So far I have hauled off three truck loads and there are a few more loads left. My wife also found out another friend of hers had a maple tree cut down a while back and I was able to get that also. Some of the guys I work with have been on the look out for me as well and now I also have a nice stock pile of cedar. The day before yesterday I found some magnolia so it will be interesting to see what thats like. My wife also called me today at work to inform me that she has found a cabinet shop that likes to sell there scraps of corian, she wants pens and bottle stoppers and other doo dads like that.
For the last 2 week I have been hauling wood, cutting it into slabs and bowl blanks. So far I have been able to rough out about 50 blanks and have more many more to go.
Fortunately my work schedule is 24 on 48 off so I have plenty of time for all of this and if I never sell a single piece that will be OK to. I don't even know if my turnings are even good enough to sell. I have seen a lot that are better than mine and a lot that are not, so I figured what the heck. If anyone has some advise on craft fairs and such I would greatly appreciate it. As soon as I get a chance Ill post some pics of finished pieces because I would really like some opinions. I don't really consider any of this a waste of time since since im going to be turning anyway. I hope this post doesn't come across as though Im bragging, Im just excited about the support I have and the prospect of someone actually giving me money for my work. Most people I know other than my wife could care less and I figured you folks here would understand.
Thanks in advance.
Glenn
Because of this my wife has made it her mission to find wood for me and she has done an excellent job. She has also used Facebook to let everyone she knows to be on the look out for wood. Some friends of hers recently cut down a large oak tree and in the process they destroyed their neighbors cherry tree. Well the neighbors got mad, cut up the cherry tree and threw it over the fence. Good for me! So far I have hauled off three truck loads and there are a few more loads left. My wife also found out another friend of hers had a maple tree cut down a while back and I was able to get that also. Some of the guys I work with have been on the look out for me as well and now I also have a nice stock pile of cedar. The day before yesterday I found some magnolia so it will be interesting to see what thats like. My wife also called me today at work to inform me that she has found a cabinet shop that likes to sell there scraps of corian, she wants pens and bottle stoppers and other doo dads like that.
For the last 2 week I have been hauling wood, cutting it into slabs and bowl blanks. So far I have been able to rough out about 50 blanks and have more many more to go.
Fortunately my work schedule is 24 on 48 off so I have plenty of time for all of this and if I never sell a single piece that will be OK to. I don't even know if my turnings are even good enough to sell. I have seen a lot that are better than mine and a lot that are not, so I figured what the heck. If anyone has some advise on craft fairs and such I would greatly appreciate it. As soon as I get a chance Ill post some pics of finished pieces because I would really like some opinions. I don't really consider any of this a waste of time since since im going to be turning anyway. I hope this post doesn't come across as though Im bragging, Im just excited about the support I have and the prospect of someone actually giving me money for my work. Most people I know other than my wife could care less and I figured you folks here would understand.
Thanks in advance.
Glenn