Frank Kobilsek
09-07-2006, 10:30 AM
Its been a week since I found Sawmill Creek on the recomendation of Keith Burns. This is a freindly site! I already have a part I need for a project coming from a fellow Creeker.
The first thing you notice is everybody knows everybody so I want to gloat about this weeks wood find and intro myself
The Gloat: About the Fourth of July a co-worker who heats a garage and part of his house with wood got a load of big Silver Maple logs from local strom damage. I had just bought a used Woodcut Coring system on-line and this sounded like great wood to practice on. It turned out to be very nice Curley Maple. This Tuesday I went back for more, and found that most of the pile had a nice spalt to it now. The pict of the pile (large pieces are 20 x 20 x 10") is most of this weeks take and the Hollowform shows the how nice the figure of the maple is.
Intro: I started turning Thanksgiving of 2003 on a Jet Mini. I had been carving canes and wanted to make the staffs fancier. Haven't carved a cane since. I turn everything from pens to platters but my two most popular items are Bottlestoppers and Rosary Boxes. Just starting to play with hollowforms. Still have the mini but turn on a Jet 1642 now and lust for a Powermatic. My wife (of 20 years) is a private school principle and God did not bless us with childern so I have both time and more discressionary cash than my freinds for hobbies. I have been to Provo for the Utah 5 course at Crafts Supply, AAW Symposium 06, several demos at hardwood suppliers, I got Best of Show at our County Fair in 2005 with a segmented bottom bowl, second place in the AAW layered bowl contest this past spring, and was juried into a little gallery this past January. Regional paper did their Saturday Extra Story (translation: nut with obsesive hobby) this summer and my Dad & I do a couple craft shows each year (He does hobby horses and kids toys). I enjoy carving & inlaying into pieces of all types. All this said still a beginer. In a good week I turn 30 hours and some weeks real life keeps me out of the shop all together.
The last pict is some other recent work setting on the corner of the deck.
Thanks for welcoming me and I look forward to learning from each of you.
Frank
The first thing you notice is everybody knows everybody so I want to gloat about this weeks wood find and intro myself
The Gloat: About the Fourth of July a co-worker who heats a garage and part of his house with wood got a load of big Silver Maple logs from local strom damage. I had just bought a used Woodcut Coring system on-line and this sounded like great wood to practice on. It turned out to be very nice Curley Maple. This Tuesday I went back for more, and found that most of the pile had a nice spalt to it now. The pict of the pile (large pieces are 20 x 20 x 10") is most of this weeks take and the Hollowform shows the how nice the figure of the maple is.
Intro: I started turning Thanksgiving of 2003 on a Jet Mini. I had been carving canes and wanted to make the staffs fancier. Haven't carved a cane since. I turn everything from pens to platters but my two most popular items are Bottlestoppers and Rosary Boxes. Just starting to play with hollowforms. Still have the mini but turn on a Jet 1642 now and lust for a Powermatic. My wife (of 20 years) is a private school principle and God did not bless us with childern so I have both time and more discressionary cash than my freinds for hobbies. I have been to Provo for the Utah 5 course at Crafts Supply, AAW Symposium 06, several demos at hardwood suppliers, I got Best of Show at our County Fair in 2005 with a segmented bottom bowl, second place in the AAW layered bowl contest this past spring, and was juried into a little gallery this past January. Regional paper did their Saturday Extra Story (translation: nut with obsesive hobby) this summer and my Dad & I do a couple craft shows each year (He does hobby horses and kids toys). I enjoy carving & inlaying into pieces of all types. All this said still a beginer. In a good week I turn 30 hours and some weeks real life keeps me out of the shop all together.
The last pict is some other recent work setting on the corner of the deck.
Thanks for welcoming me and I look forward to learning from each of you.
Frank