My wife and I are constantly at odds with wood. She wants to burn it and I
want to turn it. She gets after me when she buys wood at home depot as I go
through it. Then she is in my cut off box looking to see what she can use.
This time the boards are about 6 to 8 inches long. I think he cut them up
for weight in the box that had the gift cirtificate. A little short for the
planer. Some are good others have knots and splits but they are about 1
inch thick. Fred that is a good idea about useing them for segments as I
have been playing with the software from Woodturner Pro. I would be good to
experiment with. The tagua nut is about the size of a medium egg. the
banksia pod is about 10" long and about 3" in diameter at the widest part.
So far I have not found too much on the "how to" with either. I consider
myself a novice with basic tools. Nothing small to use on the tagua nut and
I am still not sure what to do with the pod. Since I only have one of each
I hope I don't muck them up.

Bruce
"Fred Holder" wrote in message
...
Hello Bruce,

Don't write off those palet boards so quickly. I've made a number of
segmented
bowls from old oak palet boards like you received. Once cleaned up they
are
pretty nice wood.

Fred Holder
http://www.fholder.com/

In article , Bruce
Ferguson
says...

This year I got 3 boxes from my son. The first was real heavy. Box full
of
oak pallet boards about 25 lb with a gift cirtifiacate to Rocklers. That
was cool. The next box had a Banksi pod and the last a Tagua nut. The
oak
I know what to do with. ( I know pallet wood is for the fireplace, you
must
have been talking with my wife) but the pod and the nut are new to me.
Well
on to the internet to find more info on the two items. I have as much
fun
looking for the info as turning it.
I hope everyone has a good New Years and may all your stuff come off the
lathe in one piece.

Bruce