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  1. 20th March 2009, 10:03 PM #1
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    Hi All
    One of My Grand Kids gave me this Mistletoe with the comment " bet you can't turn this Pop""
    It was a bit of a challange and I had no idea of what I was going to find when I started to get inside. The ony way I could work out to mount the ugly critter was to drill a mounting hole with a forstner and use my pin jaws. rough turned the outside to a tenon. re mounted and finished the outside and inside, some serious splits were filled with 2 part colored yellow and others were just left. I expected the monster to fly apart at any time but it remained in one pice
    sanded to 400 and has had 2 coats of poly I will buff it in a few days and leave it where the grand kid can see it along with a photo of the "ugly lump" before And after
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    Well! You certainly won that bet.
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    A winner both ways! (or more). Well done.

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    It's a beautimazing!

    Would you consider it a hardwood? More a burl?
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    That is absolutely...

    I hope your grandkids really appreciate it.

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    Thats great!, talk about the ugly duckling to the beautiful swan.
    There's no such thing as gravity, the world sux!!
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    ...now there was a challenge, and you met it beautifully
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    Quote Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy View Post
    It's a beautimazing!

    Would you consider it a hardwood? More a burl?
    Eliza it real hard but has spots of almost rotten wood that had to be filled with CA but it turned like a Burl. A few scarey moments on the hollowing with the big fault that goes all the way through
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  12. 21st March 2009, 07:33 PM #11
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    really nice

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