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What’s on your lathe?

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I absolutely did not know that. I’m surprised. Thanks.

From Cook Woods: Also known as Bay Laurel, California Olive, Pepper wood, or Spice tree, this versatile hardwood grows only in Oregon and Northernmost California.
Actually, it grows from about San Francisco up into British Columbia. Still the same tree. It is one that the higher grit you sand to, the more it glows. It does have an interlocking grain, and smells terrible if you burn it.

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was at Rockler to buy some epoxy and of course found a few other things including a curly maple blank which I needed. Friend wants a fruit bowl so she will get this when done, 11 1/2 inch diameter. Turned it today.

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