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Thread: ooOOOoo!! A customer likes me!
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20th July 2008, 06:45 AM #1
ooOOOoo!! A customer likes me!
I hooked someone up with a good deal on cable and he's a fellow penturner.
He sent me home with THIS!
Can't wait to dig into it...
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20th July 2008, 10:54 AM #2
Lucky bugger
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20th July 2008, 11:18 AM #3
New London
Amen.
Peter
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20th July 2008, 12:05 PM #4
You have done well NL as they say one good turn deserves another.
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20th July 2008, 01:06 PM #5
Yeah.. this was a nice surprise. He's burning cherry for firewood.. along with the burls!
Right now it's tan/pink/yellow. In 20 years it will be a deep red.
I couldn't wait ti try it out, even though I'm still having round/oval problems and
need a magnifier over the lathe. but I decided to waste an old kit just to try it out.
Parts don't line up, they're off center etc. etc. I don't care, I just HAD to try it out!
The parts are just stuck together with wax.. I didn't want to waste any more brass
tubes.(if you pick it up, it falls apart.. HA!!)
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20th July 2008, 01:39 PM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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Great piece of burl. I had a small block of black cherry burl, and did not like working with it. It did not have the color or figure that yours does....The pen looks awesome.
Rick
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20th July 2008, 02:35 PM #7
looks like wood mate You getting cold there and have to collect firewood
Good score I reckon and you should get some nice blanks from them...
PeteWhat this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
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20th July 2008, 04:16 PM #8
Oh this disease with which we are inflicted.
I was driving down the road the other day when I noticed a burl, on a tree, in someone's yard, and it was old and dying and beginning to lean.
That was all good and well, what was bad was I made a note to keep it under surveillance, so that when I falls on over I can pop in and offer to remove it for them.
I'm stalking someone's tree.
A cure, when will someone make a cure.Wood. Such a wonderful substance.
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20th July 2008, 05:27 PM #9
Matty there is a cure . . . . . . . . too dreadful to contemplate . . . . Abstinence
Pat
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain
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20th July 2008, 07:39 PM #10Skwair2rownd
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Burling along
Lovely score matt and a really nice pen!
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20th July 2008, 08:27 PM #11
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20th July 2008, 10:01 PM #12
Nice looking pen Matt. Black cherry burl is fun to cut and smell great when cutting. Enjoy the burl score. Should yeild lots of blanks, Russ
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20th July 2008, 10:05 PM #13
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20th July 2008, 10:08 PM #14
I know some turners who have offered to pay me to spot such trees! They'll load up
the truck with saws, chains etc. and we'll go get them. They'd pay me in blanks.
I haven't done it so far.
But if the tree is dying, you might be doing them a favor to take it down, pull the
stump and cart it all away for them. If your price is reasonable, they might even
appreciate the offer.
And if they ask why you're dipping each piece in wax as you cut it, just tell them
you're allergic to tree sap.
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21st July 2008, 09:26 PM #15
That's a beautiful burl. Cherry is such an under-rated timber. I work with a girl who casually mentioned last week that her uncle burns the burls in his wood stove because they last so long. I asked her to get me some the next time she sees him. Have to wait to see what, if anything, comes of that.
I'm curious though - any way to speed up the darkening transition? Without staining of course.When all is said and done, there is usually a whole lot more said than done.
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