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MichaelMouse

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Got some wood for flat work on Thanksgiving break, and made a couple of dishes out of cutoffs to get a look at it. The office crowd got ornaments last year, so we have to mix it up. This year it'll be dishes/bowls and cookies or fudge. As long as we're talking turning domestic woods, might I offer the following, clockwise from noon.

Kentucky coffee tree which is for box making. Soft maple bowl from (Blushes 😱) the firewood stack. Soft maple "campfire" dish, same source. Cherry and walnut cutoffs from furniture boards. Center stage, a firewood curly maple chalice.

If the site will let me, I'll put in a couple of closeups. Put more wood up the chimney today in the cold, snow and wind than I could turn in a day. Sorry hugging folks, but staying warm is good.
 

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MichaelMouse said:
Got some wood for flat work on Thanksgiving break, and made a couple of dishes out of cutoffs to get a look at it. The office crowd got ornaments last year, so we have to mix it up. This year it'll be dishes/bowls and cookies or fudge. As long as we're talking turning domestic woods, might I offer the following, clockwise from noon.

Kentucky coffee tree which is for box making. Soft maple bowl from (Blushes 😱) the firewood stack. Soft maple "campfire" dish, same source. Cherry and walnut cutoffs from furniture boards. Center stage, a firewood curly maple chalice.

If the site will let me, I'll put in a couple of closeups. Put more wood up the chimney today in the cold, snow and wind than I could turn in a day. Sorry hugging folks, but staying warm is good.
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nice work mr mouse
 
How do we get on your Christmas list? 😉 Chocolate covered cherries on a nice walnut tray would look good on my coffee table this Christmas.
 
Great Domestics

I want to hug your trees...LOL 😀

Thanks for posting this. There is -I would think - a lot of local wood available anywhere you go. These are some very fine examples. I like the turnings as well.

EDIT: I'd really like to get my hands on some of that KY Coffee Tree. Any chance you'd be interested in a flat rate box trade? I've got lots of stuff to choose from: O.O., Locust, Aspen Birch, Mulberry, Crab Apple, Pecan, and the list goes on. I'll have more Mesquite, E. Redbud, and Salt Cedar within a couple months as well. Let me know if your interested 😀
 
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Met my eldest in the Ozarks over the Holiday to turn over my old lathe and drillpress to him, but I did some yellow pages searching and found a family sawmill (plain people) with the walnut for me and the oak he wanted. The KCB and QS sycamore were wander woods, of which I bought a mere 50BF each. If we had spent another hour there I'd have spent beyond the trailer capacity. Not to mention the wife, daughter and daughter-in-law were at the outlet stores as we loaded. Actually spent more money on clothes for the three grandkids and others than I spent on wood!

So, too precious to trade, but there must be a lot of places you could visit with lumber available. Get what's there. I'm obliged to bring hard maple for trade on any subsequent visit.

As to board dishes, they are a great thing to do with cutoffs, especially when the things you cut off are often the most visually interesting knotty or gnarled pieces. Even the walnut would have been more dramatic if the missing triangle hadn't been crumbly white rotten. I'd encourage them as great gifts, filled with fudge or cookies and cellophane wrapped. Other options include an elevated circle within a rectangle to hold a candle as a centerpiece. Have at it, it's just scrap! Though I suppose I should have asked the sawyer whether the wood came from a tree farm versus a forest?
 
Fine examples of sequestered carbon, Mr. Mouse.
While clearcutting a patch of waste land today, I hugged a few dead Elms destined for the process of controlled carbon release in my wood stove.
The land had to be cleared to make way for a small private vineyard. Besides Elm, there was Sumac plus another species unidentified so far but some of that will definitely end up on the lathe.
 
Martin Braun said:
MM,

Very good idea! I think I'll make one this weekend.
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Just came from the shop. Spent the morning trying to find some stock to make one of those square dish thingies but couldn't find a board that was warped and cupped that badly. Some folks just so lucky to have all the nice wood.😀
 
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