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That's one of the most impressive bowls I've seen. The pucker factor would have been high the first time you started up the lathe with that blank on it. Exceptional bowl! Going to look even better with finish on it. Love working with mahogany.
 
Gonna look amazing when the color deepens! make a couple of paddles and you can save yourself in the next hurricane!
 
I'm sure you're loving the act that South Florida has so many great species of trees and you can get most of them at no cost. Beautiful piece!
 
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Tim Carter said:
I'm sure you're loving the act that South Florida has so many great species of trees and you can get most of them at no cost. Beautiful piece!
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I feel there is nowhere near the usable trees that I had available in Wisconsin. I do love the East Indian Rosewood but not easy to get. Mostly cut into slabs for tables.
 
I'm surprised! I miss being able to get stuff like: mango, citrus, avocado, buttonwood, bottlebrush, norfolk island pine, mahogany, guava, tamarind, sapote, sapodilla, tropical almond, crabwood (rare), black palm, black olive, royal palm and many others. Admittedly, some of these like the palms are for specialty purposes and not great for general turning.
 
Tim Carter said:
I'm surprised! I miss being able to get stuff like: mango, citrus, avocado, buttonwood, bottlebrush, norfolk island pine, mahogany, guava, tamarind, sapote, sapodilla, tropical almond, crabwood (rare), black palm, black olive, royal palm and many others. Admittedly, some of these like the palms are for specialty purposes and not great for general turning.
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Are you saying you moved from Florida?
 
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Been in Florida almost 8 years. I occasionally get mango but it never has been as nice as some mango you see. I think if I do some road trips I could find more but I donā€™t like driving across the bridge and leaving the island I live on.šŸ˜³
 
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I did a lot of turning up north and had a lot of wood connections. There was always an abundance.
 
No, I still live in FL, but we moved from Delray Beach to Ormond Beach, about 3 hours north. There's a define difference in climate. We get less rain and more cold weather during the winter. Pinky, a suggestion: try to find some tree companies on the island and see if they have an area where they dump the logs from their jobs and whether they will let you cut some of them.
 
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