Charlie Plesums
05-07-2006, 11:38 AM
My neighbor's relatives lost a favorite pear tree in a recent tornado. One evening he appeared with a hunk of wood and said "can you make something from this, so they can remember their tree? It was dripping wet and the shape of a bowl blank, so after getting nowhere suggesting firewood, I rounded it on the bandsaw, and mounted it on the lathe. Before the evening was over, the rough bowl was sitting in alcohol.
Jump ahead a couple days... laundry day, and one t-shirt is covered with red dots. Finally realized it was similar to the red color of the alcohol, and probably the shirt I was wearing when I turned the bowl. The pear wood certainly wasn't red, but it appears to be the source of the stains on the shirt.
I have never turned pear, or anything that was called pear. Could this have caused the stains? Did it ruin my soaking alcohol?
Jump ahead a couple days... laundry day, and one t-shirt is covered with red dots. Finally realized it was similar to the red color of the alcohol, and probably the shirt I was wearing when I turned the bowl. The pear wood certainly wasn't red, but it appears to be the source of the stains on the shirt.
I have never turned pear, or anything that was called pear. Could this have caused the stains? Did it ruin my soaking alcohol?