"A Lurker" wrote in message
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Last year this time I started on a slippery slope making some tree
ornaments on the used Jet lathe I picked up on a good deal with some other
equipment. Well now a year later, I'm running out of room on the
breakfront
for bowls so I decided to give some as presents to family and friends. So
these are ~12" bowls from spalted elm finished with shellic or Waterlox
and
then Beall polished. Presented with sprigs of Xmas tree greens, holly and
a
candy cane inside. Smooth as a baby's bottom with some nice spalting
lines.

So now the question .... do I have idiots for friends and family or do
people say things like this to you also?

"Is it microwaveable?"
"Is it dish washer safe?"
"Can I wash it in hot soapy water?"
"Will (various foods) hurt it?"
(all comments by different recipients)

Do I have all practical utilitarian friends and family who don't see any
artistic display value (these were really nice bowl forms with nice finish
...REALLY ) or do you get comments like these also? The only other
bowls
I've given out, were to people who gave me the wood and got some of their
tree back in return. They seemd to view them as a display item.

If people want useful, they should purchase useful, or you should have told
them when they were gifted. I have care and feeding cards of various sorts
to go along with the appropriate wooden objects when selling.

As to why people think you can put wood into a microwave or dishwasher, I'm
stumped. Got a daughter who does her spoons that way, but she knows someone
who makes a couple hundred a year, so she suffers no consequences.