I bet not many 8 year olds can say they've made stuff on a wood lathe.
I've got about 5 linear feet of log, and it has the channel all the way through it. My hope is to make a series of differently shaped hollow forms with all of it.That's gonna look cool when it's finished
Almost look like cigars! ChuckRough turned three of the reel seat blanks ( @Jonkou ) John sold me. I think he decided these were cherry burl. Doesn't matter - they're looking really nice so far. Anyway, rough turned them, then stabilized them in some pretty old Cactus Juice. Thankfully it still sets up fine. I'll turn them to final dimension and polish them and take a final photo later.
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I also stuck three sets of the desert ironwood knife scales I got here in the stabilizer too. The Cactus Juice darkened to the color of tea so I guess the DIW released some oil into the juice. It's pretty old so probably time to mix a new batch anyway.
Eric -Has anyone ever replaced the cork handles on a regular spinning rod with wood? Think I may give it a try. If someone here has, any pointers to share?
Happy Birthday Mike, enjoy the Blue Bell, there's nothing better!NOTHING in the shop today. At work, but gonna eat Blue Bell Ice Cream all day - wish! Instead I have CPR and Safety training most of day.
WISH Lil Mikey Happy Birthday Today - He's gonna be able to join the OFL now! - the big 65 and he's got the Beat Down Broken-Hearted, Lonesome Bubba Blues - unappreciated, underachieving, unattractive, unskinny, unwaxed.......SLAP!!!! There he's over it! Give me that CPR dummy - I'll be a little frisky today and not use the little plastic thingie.
PS - was looking to have a cinnamon roll today and stopped two places and they had none - not a good start. But I do have the thrill of Blue Bell to look forward to later!!!!!!
That there struck me as real funny. Happy Birthday my Tennessean friend!unskinny