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Yew Burl Round Bottom Box

Beautiful work but sure doesn’t look twice as tall as wide.
- 44 minutes ago
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Tried to save a badly cracked and warped cherry bowl… it did not go as planned.

I strongly agree with what Bill said; we learn through experience especially when things go south. It is really your advice and thoughts from this project that are most important. Sometimes we end up dealing with too many things at once, which makes it hard to sort out what we are thinking...
- Yesterday at 10:19 PM
Milk Paint Candlesticks

Curt, I do agree the milk paint would work well on peppermills!
- Yesterday at 7:51 AM
Milk Paint Candlesticks

Thanks Todd!
- Yesterday at 7:50 AM
Tried to save a badly cracked and warped cherry bowl… it did not go as planned.

I would use tapered bowtie pewa instead of the seagull patches to get a snug fit without gaps. Cracked and warped bowls are good "what if" projects since there's no concern about things going south on you. There's a woodturner's axiom: "It was firewood before turning it, and it can still be...
- Saturday at 10:35 PM