mac davis wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:58:25 -0600, tom koehler
wrote:

Tom,
I think Gerald is saying that from the time he cuts a blank and it starts
drying/cracking.degrading is pretty short with that particular wood at that
temperature..
Not sure WHY, though, as he's in Georgia and I'd guess that the humidity is high
there?


What I'm saying is, I'm out of shape and that is sweaty work.


On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:54:12 -0600, Gerald Ross wrote
(in message ):

Since Christmas I have been cutting bowl blanks. A friend called me
that his son had cut a large sweetgum tree. It was large enough that I
could cut an 16 inch bowl blank off each side leaving an 8 inch slab
with the pith. From this I can make two 8 inch bowls on each side of
the pith making 6 bowls from each section. So far I have 24 large
blanks and uncounted small ones. There is nearly that much left but
with the 70 degree weather I can only keep at it a couple of hours.

Anybody ever used sweetgum for bowls? It is beautiful brown with tans
and oranges mixed in. Looks sorta like petrified wood.


sounds like you hit a wood bonanza! am mildly puzzled about the reference to
70 deg. weather, and thus only able to "keep at it a couple of hours" I'm
thinking this is a gentle jab at us snowbound folks who would be willing to
do *anything* all day long, if it were 70 degrees... not just for a couple of
hours. Humor. That's it, it must be humor. I guess I'm chuckling a little.
heh.

If the roads are open tomorrow, I might snowshoe into the back 40, and get me
a few chunks of frozen birch to mess around with.

Good catch on the sweetgum! (I don't mean "catch" like might could happen
with a chisel, I mean you done a good thing)

tom koehler


mac

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