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nice way to spend Eeaster sunday morning

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nice way to spend Eeaster sunday morning

Mike Schwing from Maryland

>...making Christmas gifts!

Since its raining here and all. Roughed 3 very colorful, large bowls. Quite a mess in the turning area - would have been the whole basement if not for the shower curtain thingy.

The three - the pretties piece of cherry I think I've ever seen. Almost invisible grain, nearly cream complexion, slightly soft though. My first piece of osage orange - I gotta go back and get the rest of that tree, and a nice sized box elder.

Just fun, thought I'd take a pic and share it. Now they'll waxed and shelved, but might be christmas gifts for 2005!


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David Eaves

>Hi Mike,

Looks like you had a busy morning. The colour of that Osage Orange is something else. It reminds me of ash in grain looks. Is it quite open grained? I haven't turned any yet.

The whole schedule of rough turning is quite amusing (Easter for next next Christmas :o) ), the mad thing is it will probably come round fast. There just aren't enough hours in the week.

David

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John Lucas

>Mike

I wish I had been turning. I spent the weekend working on a project for work. Actually I did get to turn a 19" platter with a 12" pulley that goes with this project.

I'm trying to build a rotary turntable that will turn art work at about 6 rpm so we can make a digital movie for the artist to put on their website or CD. I got to use one of the Vega DC motors that Mark told us about. They now come with a mounting bracket and the wiring is really easy.

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Mike Rubes

>Hi Mike,

Nice looking roughs! Great post down below about the wood dump as well. Good score!

Have fun with all the wood and thanks for the pics.

Mike

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