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Some purdy wild cherry

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Some purdy wild cherry

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Some purdy wild cherry

Andy Halterman: Fixin' to ride soon

>Found this small croch piece of pin cherry at the bottom of my "to be split" firewood pile. Busted it in half with the splitter and decided it was just to nice to burn. This piece was sitting near the ground under a whole bunch of wood for about eight months. Most of the stuff near the bark was fairly far gone so my idea of a natural edge naturally wouldn't work. I dried it using my own alcohol method. I turned it for a bit, went upstairs and drank half a bottle of red wine and three PBR tall boys. After those I was sufficiently shnockered that the bowl looked dry enough to finish out. :-) Neat thing about this wood is that it smells like candy when you are turning it. Of coures, I may have been too far gone to tell what it really smelled like......

Dimensions are 5 1/2 wide by about 2 inches tall. I really just wanted to share the pretty wood with y'all. Extra credit given for creatively trashing my work. :-) By the way, I still have the other half.

Andy Halterman

Suffering from an apple pie hangover in Hendersonville, NC

ps I was just kidding about the beer/wine thing so please don't take that seriously


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Andy Halterman: Fixin' to ride soon

>Y'all will have to pardon the fuzziness of the pics. I need to figure out how to sharpen things up when I resize photos.

Andy Halterman

Spalting can be a good thing in Hendersonville, NC


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Don Orr

>That's beautiful! What a great piece of firewood. With all those colors it almost looks like it's already on fire. Good save. Thanks for the disclaimer about not really drinking alcohol and operating power tools. Scared me there for a minute.

Happy and Safe turning, don

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All seriousness aside, eh.

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

>Hi Andy,

I think I know you are kidding. However, anybody with a dozen guitars and more bikes than an octopus can ride may be expected to stretch the truth just a tad. The bowl looks very nice from 2,500 miles away. Did I ever tell you I had extremely good eye site? Since other people are not so blessed, could you crop the picture next time so we get more bowl and less background? A side view would be nice also.

When I turned the cherry root I got from Ray Thompson my shop smelled like Smith Brothers cherry cough drops. I could have used those cough drop the last couple days. I have a sinus infection that has kept me out of the shop for two days. Feel too lousy to do computer work either. At least I can hear from old friends on the forums. Have a good ride buddy.

Dave Smith

I think I need to explain the alcohol bowl drying process a little better in Longview, WA.

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Mike Schwing from Md.

>Where ya fixin' to ride soon? Around here its almost too cold to go out other than for a run, if you don't like riding below 50F (and I don't).

That cherry looks pretty nice from here, and it is almost impossible to keep the clarity of your photos up when you shrink them down that much. Only an object the size of a dime will show as much detail as you'd like when displayed at the size of a dime.

I turn black cherry almost constantly, well at least when I'm not turning maple, and it always smells nice, but sometimes it does smell particularly like candy. Turned some cherry burl last night that was so sweet my mouth was watering.

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Glenn Hodges

>Admiring your bowl, I have the same problem when I downsize my pictures. Mine look even more fuzzier than yours.

Nashville, GA

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When in the mtns........

Andy Halterman: Done went and rided

>we go mtn. biking. Took the beast out and reeled off about 9 miles or so. Nothing major, just a fun run around the trails near the Pisgah Ranger station. Hi-power Bambi season is open so you don't want to stray to far out for a few weeks. I will do shorter road rides down into the 30s. Those downhills do get wicked cold in the winter. :-)

That wood is actually pin cherry (prunus pensylvanica) or fire cherry as some call it. Same family but not black cherry (prunus serotina) that we all know and love. It spalts super easy just by chuckin' it outside in the dirt for a while. Kinda cool like that as it is VERY plentiful around here with all the building going on. I have a whole trees worth since my big one came down during Ivan.

Andy Halterman

Gotta get a quick nap to be ready for Acoustic Syndicate tonight in Hendersonville, NC

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Barry Turner

>That certainly is a pretty bottom............

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Barry Turner

>That last comment probably needs some explanation. One of the women in my Bible Study Group lives in the country in a rustic cabin with a deck overlooking a beautiful creek "bottom". We kid her all the time about what a "pretty bottom" she has...............:-)

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Leo Van Der Loo

Whow that issh very nice !!!

Leo Van Der Loo

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Roger La Rose

>That bowl sure is pretty, top and bottom. But what I'd like to know is "What did the split log look like that drew your attention?" When I handle firewood, all I see is firewood. Oh sure I'll turn some, but nothing special. So, often I buy blanks that look like they "might" end up being interesting. If you have a photo of the other half, maybe you could point out what made you think it was too nice to burn. Was it just the fact that a crotch piece is usually more interesting or the spalting? Thanks,

Roger in Harper Woods

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EagleS.C.

>Looks like the head of an Eagle with the wing coming forward.

Don't know why I spotted it.:>)

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Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Andy,

Nice looking bowl you got there! Here's hoping you and yours had a good turkey day up there. Things were good down here. I've started experimenting with alcohol soaking, so we'll see how some box elder and walnut turn out.

I'm thinking the "Halterman Alcohol Drying Process" will catch on!

Mike

Single-handedly eliminating the world's supply of pumpkin pie from Apex, NC...