Jerry Marcantel
12-19-2011, 5:11 PM
Hi folks, on the 17th I took a bowl over to a tree trimmer that gave me some wood awhile back. On the way home I saw my favorite kind of road, dirt, leading in the direction of home, so I took it. I found several tree stumps that were recently dumped. One of them I'm pretty sure is Palo Verde, but when I cut into it, I'm not sure, even though it smelled almost like rotting flesh... Most of the Palo Verde I've seen in the pastdoes smell bad, but is pretty bland. As you can see, this piece is not bland at all.216420 Other than sharpening my chain 5 times,and washing it to remove dirt pockets and rock, it was easy to cut.
Here is what I turned from a root offshoot.It was funny while turning to see sparks like you see when sharpening your tools. It had a lot of tiny rocks in it, but I got past that and here it is at 5" od x 3 1/2 tall and varies 1/16 - 1/8" thick throughout. Transmits light pretty good. That's what I used to let me know how thin it was....It's turned green, and I'm wanting to find out if it will deform something like wet madrone does. I put it in a bag with shavings inside the form, and around it. Wet shavings, bag, and paper clip weighed 477 grams 2 days ago, and I weighed it about an hour ago, and it weighed 411 grams..... It's drying pretty good even though we're in super high humid conditions at 80-90%. 216417216418216419I'll post more when it's dry, or cracked beyond recognition. ......... Jerry (in Tucson)
Here is what I turned from a root offshoot.It was funny while turning to see sparks like you see when sharpening your tools. It had a lot of tiny rocks in it, but I got past that and here it is at 5" od x 3 1/2 tall and varies 1/16 - 1/8" thick throughout. Transmits light pretty good. That's what I used to let me know how thin it was....It's turned green, and I'm wanting to find out if it will deform something like wet madrone does. I put it in a bag with shavings inside the form, and around it. Wet shavings, bag, and paper clip weighed 477 grams 2 days ago, and I weighed it about an hour ago, and it weighed 411 grams..... It's drying pretty good even though we're in super high humid conditions at 80-90%. 216417216418216419I'll post more when it's dry, or cracked beyond recognition. ......... Jerry (in Tucson)