I do wood turning for fun

[craneman54]

Good things don't come cheap! But it's so beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen wood in that natural colour.

I'm sorry to hear about your wife

I love purple heart. There are alot of spectacular woods out there just have to my greedy hands on some.

Thanks for the statement about the wife. I should not have mentioned that. Sometimes I don't think before I post. No harm done.

 

[Sumi]

I feel that way about chickens But for self-discipline and space and life I'd have had 1000 by now LOL

No worries, many of us switch between talking about our personal lives and animals and everything else in the forums.

 

[goatgurl]

no craneman i don't like your bowls, etc. i love them, they are really beautiful. ok so I'm impressed by your talent. i have a giant oak tree that was taken down by lightening a couple of years ago that has a really strange wavy grain. it was so big my daughter and granddaughter could stand together in the center of it. to bad you aren't closer or i would send you home with a load. a friend of mine also does woodworking and he has made me some little things out of it, a coffee scoop, a set of coasters, and an ink pen. he also makes incredible turkey calls out of them. think seriously about making them to sell, home business kinda thing. are there not saw mills around you that would sell chunks of oak, cedar, walnut, etc. look around. good luck, i love them!

 

[craneman54]

no craneman i don't like your bowls, etc. i love them, they are really beautiful. ok so I'm impressed by your talent. i have a giant oak tree that was taken down by lightening a couple of years ago that has a really strange wavy grain. it was so big my daughter and granddaughter could stand together in the center of it. to bad you aren't closer or i would send you home with a load. a friend of mine also does woodworking and he has made me some little things out of it, a coffee scoop, a set of coasters, and an ink pen. he also makes incredible turkey calls out of them. think seriously about making them to sell, home business kinda thing. are there not saw mills around you that would sell chunks of oak, cedar, walnut, etc. look around. good luck, i love them!

Actually one of the reasons I bought the place we live in now was because there is a saw mill across the road from me. He sawed what ever people needed when we bought,but while I was remodeling the house and setting the property like I wanted. He up and started doing just wood flooring from salvaged beams from under house's,buildings and such. I had talked to the owner and he told me I could have andything I wanted out of his scraps. Unfortunately all his scraps are thin small strips that are useless for what I need.

 

[M.L. McKnight]

Those are neat thing you have been making! That goblet is my favorite just because I know that took some special attention to detail. I wouldn't mind putting a lathe out in the barn, I have all of the pecan, cedar, walnut and oak I could want to use.
I bet you could make some fun art pieces, a bowl within a bowl within a bowl would probably blow everyone's mind especially if you made it a few tiers in height. It'd take some figuring but it would be really neat.

Good works!

 

[craneman54]

Those are neat thing you have been making! That goblet is my favorite just because I know that took some special attention to detail. I wouldn't mind putting a lathe out in the barn, I have all of the pecan, cedar, walnut and oak I could want to use.
I bet you could make some fun art pieces, a bowl within a bowl within a bowl would probably blow everyone's mind especially if you made it a few tiers in height. It'd take some figuring but it would be really neat.

Good works!

Well don't just think about a lathe go get ya one. Of course you would need turning tools and a chuck a grinder to sharpen the tools......

A bowl in a bowl in a bowl? That would be hard to do.

 

[norseofcourse]

I think your work is very beautiful, and that longstemmed glass is amazing!

 

[craneman54]

I think your work is very beautiful, and that longstemmed glass is amazing!

Thank you I enjoyed making it.