For those that can't access ABPW.. here's a link to a facebook photo album, the
last 9 pictures are recent projects:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca
you don't need to join facebook to view these..


mac

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 9:55:18 -0600, mac davis wrote
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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca

well I think it is very good looking work, and I like the satin kind of
finish. What finish do you use - if I may ask.

tom koehler


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Mac,your work is relly amazing.Your mystery burl looks very similar to a
something I made out of spruce burl.
Kevin
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 9:55:18 -0600, mac davis wrote
(in message ):

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca

well I think it is very good looking work, and I like the satin kind of
finish. What finish do you use - if I may ask.

tom koehler


--
I will find a way or make one.

On 11/15/2010 10:55 AM, mac davis wrote:
For those that can't access ABPW.. here's a link to a facebook photo album, the
last 9 pictures are recent projects:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca
you don't need to join facebook to view these..


mac

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Very nice. Are the goblets functional?

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:26:11 -0600, tom koehler
wrote:

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 9:55:18 -0600, mac davis wrote
(in message ):

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca

well I think it is very good looking work, and I like the satin kind of
finish. What finish do you use - if I may ask.

tom koehler
Thank you, Tom..
I don't really use a finish, unless it's a soft wood like pine or redwood..
Hardwood gets sanded on the lathe and buffed with the Bealle System, softwoods
get wet sanded with Natural Danish oil and then buffed..


mac

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:42:23 -0500, "Kevin Cleary" wrote:

Mac,your work is relly amazing.Your mystery burl looks very similar to a
something I made out of spruce burl.
Kevin
I knew what kind of tree it came from at one time, but senior memory has lost
it..
A friend brought it from the states, where it had hung on the back fence of a
fire department for years..
I hung it on a ceiling hook in the shop for over a year, changing hanging points
once in a while, until I figured out how it could fit on the lathe..
It had 3 branches sticking out of it and was covered by a thin membrane of
bark..

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 9:55:18 -0600, mac davis wrote
(in message ):

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...4&l=384887edca

well I think it is very good looking work, and I like the satin kind of
finish. What finish do you use - if I may ask.

tom koehler


--
I will find a way or make one.




mac

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:47:18 -0500, sbnjhfty wrote:

Very nice. Are the goblets functional?
Thank you..
I would guess that they are, if you didn't put them in a dishwasher..
They're cocobolo, buffed with carnauba wax.. Should be food safe..
They were a commission from a winery.. 3 goblets about 11" tall, as close to
identical as possible..
Did I mention that I don't do commissions anymore?


mac

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 2:58:40 -0600, mac davis wrote
(in message ):

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:47:18 -0500, sbnjhfty wrote:

Very nice. Are the goblets functional?
Thank you..
I would guess that they are, if you didn't put them in a dishwasher..
They're cocobolo, buffed with carnauba wax.. Should be food safe..
They were a commission from a winery.. 3 goblets about 11" tall, as close to
identical as possible..
Did I mention that I don't do commissions anymore?


mac

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I do stuff that pleases me, and then if someone else wants it, okay then. My
personal experience with commissions is that if you agree to make a specific
thing for someone else, the thing that was formerly pleasurable now becomes a
job on a deadline and no longer pleasurable.

It would be a different thing, to do woodturning for someone else as a job,
but then there has to be some kind of mental shift of gears so that you could
do it without beating yourself up, mentally, about what the finished products
look like (compared to what you'd like to be able to produce with a bit more
time).

There are many in this forum who are full-time turners. You earn your daily
bread doing this. Is there some kind of disconnect, some way of separating
the lathe work that is done quickly out of necessity for regular income -
compared to what is happening internally when you do a personal piece?

tom koehler
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I will find a way or make one.

Hey Mac,can you put the pic's on the ABPW site ? I'm on webby & can't
even see them on FB.

Jerry


http://community.webtv.net/awoodbutc...oodWorkingPage

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:24:34 -0600, tom koehler
wrote:

I do stuff that pleases me, and then if someone else wants it, okay then. My
personal experience with commissions is that if you agree to make a specific
thing for someone else, the thing that was formerly pleasurable now becomes a
job on a deadline and no longer pleasurable.

It would be a different thing, to do woodturning for someone else as a job,
but then there has to be some kind of mental shift of gears so that you could
do it without beating yourself up, mentally, about what the finished products
look like (compared to what you'd like to be able to produce with a bit more
time).

There are many in this forum who are full-time turners. You earn your daily
bread doing this. Is there some kind of disconnect, some way of separating
the lathe work that is done quickly out of necessity for regular income -
compared to what is happening internally when you do a personal piece?

tom koehler
2 of my worst commissions were the 3 goblets and legs for a three-legged
stool...
The first piece is usually fun, but trying to make the other pieces the same is
NOT fun..
I find that my style has become so free form that I have trouble making
something to order..
An example was a favor for a charity, making a police nightstick for an event..
It took way too long to figure out dimensions, diameters, etc.. BORING...

I'm too used to throwing a chunk of wood on the lathe and seeing what happens..

I lost a bid a few years ago on 200 slimline pens.. I was so relieved that I
didn't have to make them!


mac

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I think that probably happens to a lot of us.I've just recently started
making some duck and goose calls and I'll be damned if I can make a matching
pair.

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:24:34 -0600, tom koehler
wrote:

I do stuff that pleases me, and then if someone else wants it, okay then.
My
personal experience with commissions is that if you agree to make a
specific
thing for someone else, the thing that was formerly pleasurable now
becomes a
job on a deadline and no longer pleasurable.

It would be a different thing, to do woodturning for someone else as a
job,
but then there has to be some kind of mental shift of gears so that you
could
do it without beating yourself up, mentally, about what the finished
products
look like (compared to what you'd like to be able to produce with a bit
more
time).

There are many in this forum who are full-time turners. You earn your
daily
bread doing this. Is there some kind of disconnect, some way of separating
the lathe work that is done quickly out of necessity for regular income -
compared to what is happening internally when you do a personal piece?

tom koehler
2 of my worst commissions were the 3 goblets and legs for a three-legged
stool...
The first piece is usually fun, but trying to make the other pieces the
same is
NOT fun..
I find that my style has become so free form that I have trouble making
something to order..
An example was a favor for a charity, making a police nightstick for an
event..
It took way too long to figure out dimensions, diameters, etc.. BORING...

I'm too used to throwing a chunk of wood on the lathe and seeing what
happens..

I lost a bid a few years ago on 200 slimline pens.. I was so relieved that
I
didn't have to make them!


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing