I don't know why you thought that?
I'm thinking Doc needs to go check on Mr. Peet's brother if he's threading tendons with his.
I'm thinking Doc needs to go check on Mr. Peet's brother if he's threading tendons with his.
Something to add at long last
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Oh that might explain your confusion!
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Got the power ran for the new lathe today and was able to turn on it. A kou bowl I started a couple years ago was dry and ready to go.
Had some pith around the knots so I sanded down a pen blank scrap and filled with the dust and ca.
Had some pith around the knots so I sanded down a pen blank scrap and filled with the dust and ca.
Very nice Donny!
@Don Ratcliff what’s a kou bowl 
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The wood is kou and the thing I made with said wood is a bowl.@Don Ratcliff what’s a kou bowl
I love HI Kou and has similarity with Ziricote (heartwood).........the color is fresher when is recently opened and gets very dark into a bronze warm gray with purple highlights when it oxidizes.
Just to be fair and for comparison purposes, I added the photo below (Jan. 28th) of what this piece looks like now after it oxidized after 2 years of resawing it and leaving it to season. Tried to take the photo of the same view when it was first opened up......
Just to be fair and for comparison purposes, I added the photo below (Jan. 28th) of what this piece looks like now after it oxidized after 2 years of resawing it and leaving it to season. Tried to take the photo of the same view when it was first opened up......
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Nice shape. Are you keeping it or selling it or gifting it?
And will you be making a lid for it?
And will you be making a lid for it?
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I give everything to maya, if she sells it thats up to her. Eventually I will fill the house and she will have to sell something... or get a bigger house...
I had another section ready to go for a lid but it cracked and broke on me so no lid.
I had another section ready to go for a lid but it cracked and broke on me so no lid.
Didn’t know of the ever elusive Kou wood 
Didn’t know of the ever elusive Kou wood
Glad I'm not the only one. I thought he meant Koa until I saw the same thing on FB.
@Lou Currier and @Tony I added before and after photo’s when the wood oxidized.
Can wait to see what Don’s bowl when it get finished- please post photo’s. Sorry Don, didn’t mean to hijack your thread and just passing information to the WB Community.
KOU is as important as Koa to native Hawaiians as far as history for bowls, calabash, etc.. It actually planes like butter. Outside of Hawaii, it also grows in the Polynesian Islands...........I have seen some objects that turns really dark as it ages, almost to the point some look like charcoal in color with dark brown highlights. You can mistake it as ziricote at times and the difference is the density.
Can wait to see what Don’s bowl when it get finished- please post photo’s. Sorry Don, didn’t mean to hijack your thread and just passing information to the WB Community.
KOU is as important as Koa to native Hawaiians as far as history for bowls, calabash, etc.. It actually planes like butter. Outside of Hawaii, it also grows in the Polynesian Islands...........I have seen some objects that turns really dark as it ages, almost to the point some look like charcoal in color with dark brown highlights. You can mistake it as ziricote at times and the difference is the density.
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Anyone heard from Gilligan lately? He's been awful quiet of late, and that's not normal for him! Don't know if the natives got him, he fell in the volcano, shark ate him, or he made his lovely wife grumpy one too many times.
He's fine, I talked to him about a half hour ago as a matter of fact. Just running around busy like Stoopid Islanders do!
Yep, his job has em busy like a chicken with it's head cut off...
Maybe someone locked the door on the bomb shelter where he sleeps.
