Not plans, just ideas. I'm wondering what, if anything, Wreckers have
personally done in the way of making a nut bowl. (Personally, preferably,
as opposed to random web sites showcasing things no one here has ever
actually made.)

I'm a long way from being able to turn a bowl, and I don't even have the use
of my lathe yet, so I'm thinking in other directions.

I want something with holes in it for the cracker and picks, obviously, and
something to hold nuts.

Pretty, preferably, and it of course _has_ to be made out of walnut.
Duh.

I'd like to come up with something pretty quick like, before I eat all the
nuts.

(That's why I gain weight this time of year. I can't stay away from those
damn nuts!)

I'm thinking of a board with a big hole in it, with a regular plastic/glass
ceramic bowl in the hole, and some kind of little raised doohickey with
holes to receive the cracker.

I'm also thinking that's pretty lame, and surely someone can come up with a
better idea somewhere between this and turning something on a lathe.

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"Silvan" wrote in message

I'm wondering what, if anything, Wreckers have
personally done in the way of making a nut bowl.

Nah, it is easier to just buy a cup for my jock strap.
Ed

You are a BAD man.... now I have that picture in my head instead of a nice
bowl for pecans, walnuts, etc...Damn.

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
om...

"Silvan" wrote in message

I'm wondering what, if anything, Wreckers have
personally done in the way of making a nut bowl.

Nah, it is easier to just buy a cup for my jock strap.
Ed

Silvan wrote:
Not plans, just ideas. I'm wondering what, if anything, Wreckers have
personally done in the way of making a nut bowl. (Personally, preferably,
as opposed to random web sites showcasing things no one here has ever
actually made.)
I want something with holes in it for the cracker and picks, obviously, and
something to hold nuts.
Pretty, preferably, and it of course _has_ to be made out of walnut.
Duh.
I'm thinking of a board with a big hole in it, with a regular plastic/glass
ceramic bowl in the hole, and some kind of little raised doohickey with
holes to receive the cracker.
I'm also thinking that's pretty lame, and surely someone can come up with a
better idea somewhere between this and turning something on a lathe.

If you can live with flat surfaces, like wings rather than holes, or
drill them if you have to, a winged, square bowl works nicely. I can
post one to ABPW if you want. I love walnut.
Dave in Fairfax
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wrote:

If you can live with flat surfaces, like wings rather than holes, or
drill them if you have to, a winged, square bowl works nicely. I can
post one to ABPW if you want. I love walnut.

Shoot it to my email if you would, I don't get ABPW.

Square is interesting. I never thought about square. Why does it need to
be round at all? I could just build a nut box.

Well, that's a long line of thought to ponder. Thanks for breaking me out
of the box.

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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

personally done in the way of making a nut bowl.

Nah, it is easier to just buy a cup for my jock strap.

Yeah, but I wouldn't eat any nuts that came out of a jock strap...

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In article ,
Silvan wrote:
Not plans, just ideas. I'm wondering what, if anything, Wreckers have
personally done in the way of making a nut bowl. (Personally, preferably,
as opposed to random web sites showcasing things no one here has ever
actually made.)

I'm a long way from being able to turn a bowl, and I don't even have the use
of my lathe yet, so I'm thinking in other directions.

I want something with holes in it for the cracker and picks, obviously, and
something to hold nuts.

Pretty, preferably, and it of course _has_ to be made out of walnut.
Duh.

I'd like to come up with something pretty quick like, before I eat all the
nuts.

(That's why I gain weight this time of year. I can't stay away from those
damn nuts!)

I'm thinking of a board with a big hole in it, with a regular plastic/glass
ceramic bowl in the hole, and some kind of little raised doohickey with
holes to receive the cracker.

I'm also thinking that's pretty lame, and surely someone can come up with a
better idea somewhere between this and turning something on a lathe.

Got any wood-carving chisels?

If you don't have a chunk of 8/4 - 12/4 stock laying around, laminate
together 2 or 3 pieces of 4/4.

Trace out a 'pleasing shape' -- maybe something 'leaf' like.

You can bandsaw the outside rough shape, then use a stationary belt/disk
sander to remove the excess that is 'outside' the bowl.

Chisel/gouge out the material that doesn't belong on the 'inside'.

Make a 'tray' type piece that the bowl will sit on one side of.
Gouge a _shallow_ recess at the -opposite- side, to _lay_ the nutcracker in.

Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 1:22am (Silvan) says:
Not plans, just ideas.snip

I haven't made one, because I have a pressed bamboo bowl I use for
nuts. No idea how that was made.

Take a section of log, with one end perfectly flat, so it'll stand
straight, and steady. Hollow out the other end. Viola authentic nut
bowl. Stick a stuffed squirrel on it, and it'll be perfect. Deeper
the hollow, the more nuts it'll hold. You can drill holes on the edge
to hold nut crackers, nut picks, etc. Bark is optional.

JOAT
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might
as well dance.
- Unknown

Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 19 Dec 2003.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofal...OMETUNESILIKE/

a stuffed squirrel won't bark ;-)

T. wrote:
Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 1:22am (Silvan) says:
Not plans, just ideas.snip

I haven't made one, because I have a pressed bamboo bowl I use for
nuts. No idea how that was made.

Take a section of log, with one end perfectly flat, so it'll stand
straight, and steady. Hollow out the other end. Viola authentic nut
bowl. Stick a stuffed squirrel on it, and it'll be perfect. Deeper
the hollow, the more nuts it'll hold. You can drill holes on the edge
to hold nut crackers, nut picks, etc. Bark is optional.

JOAT
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might
as well dance.
- Unknown

Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 19 Dec 2003.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofal...OMETUNESILIKE/


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Silvan wrote:
Shoot it to my email if you would, I don't get ABPW.
Square is interesting. I never thought about square. Why does it need to
be round at all? I could just build a nut box.
Well, that's a long line of thought to ponder. Thanks for breaking me out
of the box.
You've got mail.
Dave in fairfax
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You've got mail.

Not unless you're trying to sell me penis enlargement pills.

Methinks I need to go check the lint trap. I don't know why it would have
caught you though.

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Silvan wrote:
wrote:
You've got mail.
Not unless you're trying to sell me penis enlargement pills.
Methinks I need to go check the lint trap. I don't know why it would have
caught you though.

I don't know about the lintrap, but you intercepted my shipment, give
'em back. I re-sent to both your addys, hopefully they'll go through.
Do you have nut in the filter? That would do it, the trap I mean.
Dave in Fairfax
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wrote:

Yeah, but I wouldn't eat any nuts that came out of a jock strap...

Does your girlfriend feel the same way?

Unfortunately, yes.

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