Making mushrooms.

[Jamie Donaldson]

Time to replenish the 'shroom inventory for a show next week. I generally turn them from locust or osage, and they last very well as "yard art." People don't believe they actually grow in my shop until I show this photo, and the other shot is the largest 'shroom that the Mushroom Man has ever found!
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[Roger Chandler]

Very organic...........looks like you have certainly been busy............nice collection of 'Shrooms!"

[Scott Hackler]

Wow, that is a herd of mushrooms!

[John Keeton]

Jamie, I wish we had video of the neat demo you put on at our club Turnfest so the folks could see you doing these - you are pretty slick at it!!! I checked the link on the BAW club website, but it only has video of you doing the Christmas tree.

[Greg Just]

that's a lot of mushrooms! I turned a couple of my own last week. Fun and fast.

[Jamie Donaldson]

OK John, how did you move the images around? I gave up after trying to figure it out!

[James Combs]

Jamie, Ahh... hmm... you know you may have a moisture problem in your shop. You got mushrooms growing out of the floor.

Seriously, that is about as prolific turning as I have ever seen. Great job.

[Rick Markham]

Those are really cool Jamie! How do you tell which ones are poisonous?:D

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow - those are really cool Jamie! Only one question for you... how do you like using your Stubby lathe?

[Tim Rinehart]

Nice Jamie. I really like the 'big one' especially. Can I assume this was a sick tree that got chainsaw carved in place?

[Jamie Donaldson]

The gardner at the Inn at Mystic Connecticut chainsawed a dead tree in the garden, and I happened to stay there coming back from the AAW Symposium in Providence several years ago. Figured it was one of those strange quirks of fate that the Mushroom Man landed there!

[Jamie Donaldson]

Steve- I upgraded from a Woodfast to "Studly the Stubby" about 10 yrs. ago, and wouldn't trade it for any other lathe even now.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Jamie those are just to cool. Boy that is a bunch of mushrooms.

[David DeCristoforo]

Zounds! That's a lot of 'shrooms. Now if you could just turn some t-bones....

[Dick Wilson]

Jamie, Hmmmmm....mushrooms. You weren't per chance harking back to you mis-spent youth when you were deep in the vortex (yes, there are other vortexes) of the hippie culture?:D:D:D Come on, fess up, inquiring minds want to know.

If you were at our booth at the Grand Rapids Art Festival you could have sold every mushroom on the table. I don't have a clue on how to figure out what the public will buy an any given day or year. Matt Hutchinson who posts here once in a while turned a box full of mushrooms from tree branches. He left the bark on the bottom edge of the cap. He sold out!!!!!!!! Between mushrooms and rolling pins he was by far the top seller in the booth.

Great collection of rooms there Jamie.

[Harvey Ghesser]

That's an awfully big mushroom, Jamie! I guess anything is possible with Stubby!;):D:D

[David E Keller]

Pretty neat! Just out of curiousity, what is the size range on the 'shrooms in the second photo?

[Jamie Donaldson]

David- they range in size from "babies" at 3" for $3, to "Big Daddies" at 18"~20" for $25.

[Sid Matheny]

Great looking mushrooms but wonder how good they would be sauteed in butter. :eek:

Sid

[Michael Armstrong]

Great looking bunch of mushrooms. I'm glad you posted them because it reminded me how much fun they are to turn. I've spent the last couple of days turning some out of lilac, walnut and sumac.

Michael