Going Nuts

[Jack Mincey]

I had a pocket full of hickory nuts last week and one of my students decided to see what he could turn from them. This is what he came up with.
Jack
This first picture is a Hollow Form.
http://usera.ImageCave.com/flyrod444/100_1240.JPG
This is a bunch of mushrooms he turned.
http://usera.ImageCave.com/flyrod444/100_1236.JPG

[Steve Schlumpf]

Jack - always great to see imagination in turning! Please let your student know he did a great job! Thanks for sharing!

[robert hainstock]

very creative. How do you chuck a hickory nut? :)
Bob

[Bernie Weishapl]

Wow how cool. Please tell your student well done.

[Scott Lux]

How do you chuck a hickory nut?

At your brother of course!

[David Drickhamer]

Tell your student well done. I love the mushroom.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

They are surely looking good, but that is also surely about the hardest way to get the nutmeat out :D :eek: ;)

[Jack Mincey]

Thanks everyone,
He held the nut with pin jaws on a scroll chuck. Had to be careful not to hit the jaws. Hickory nuts are very good to eat, but it is also very very hard to get the meat out any way you go about it.
Thanks again,
Jack

[Jeff Nicol]

Jack, I have a bunch of black walnuts that I gathered in the early summer. They still have the outer covering on them,but it has shrunk up and turned dark. I have one almost finished into a small lidded box. I was hoping to get it done and posted, but your students beat me to the NUTS! I love that they had the desire to turn some not so typical things!

Great job and thanks for posting them!

Jeff

[Jim Kountz]

Now thats just plain cool! Whodathunkit!!

[Skip Spaulding]

Jack, great to see art is not just paper and paint. You may have an up and comming wood artist there.