The Woodshop Shed

TWO CEDAR BURL BOWLS and other things

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A friend of mine that works in the logging industry dropped a couple shallow Western Red Cedar Burls this fall, as well as Yellow Cedar blocks. They gave me the inspiration to starts some work in the shop
This one was round and had enough wood for foot for the chuckIt turned into this, The contrast between sap wood and heart wood is attractive.The bottomThe other Burl was more attractive in the end but it had to be mounted way off center where there was enough wood. I felt I had to attach it with a faceplate and screws for fear of it coming off, It shook my lathe up allot, tool that I lay on the bed ended up on the floor.The color was great on this one, lots of variation caused by the grain of the burl. hard to capture with a photoAlso sent out some spurtles that where requested from a You Tube video I post long time agoRecycle1943 in the comments of the las project I posted said he was looking forward to seeing some innovated projects I built from scratch. This one is for him. I had an snowblower from an old lawn tractor, a motor I picked up cheap, and an old quad. Thought, why don't i put them all together and make something useful. This is not my original design that was in my head. If you don't work from a plan one can easily change and come up with most any thing and a way to fit the bill. When it snows more I will see if it works, we did have one big snow fall, but I had to get the big guns out. now it is warmer and with some rainOther than that I have one other innovative project that I tested out yesterday, just have to use it for a project soon, so stay tuned.Thanks for looking, more good things to come.

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Limited space cutting board

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Our kitchen has very little counter space to prep and cook on. So I found inspiration online to make some more room.

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Maxine and Speedy

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I carved this figure from basswood. I used an old photo for my guide. The photo depicts my mother in law holding a rooster named Speedy. She had just finished washing him for the 4H fair. My youngest son was showing for the first time the next day. Maxine had just pulled the rooster out of a bucket of soap water. He almost drowned! It was a tense situation. My dear mother in law took it in stride and revived ole Speedy.
This is the first carving I have done where I used some colored stain. I think it worked. I knew I had done something when my sister in law recognized Maxine instantly! The hat was stained with a dark stain. I learned something I had never thought of when I applied a drop of stain. Capillary action spread the strain onto the forehead! I had to recarve part of her face. Lots of lessons in this carving!

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