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infested with ugly warts

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infested with ugly warts

John K Jordan

I was looking today in a shed I don't often visit and found some shelves full of ugly warts I had completely forgotten about, like this one:


I forgot what it is, does it look like maple? (the wood is not red - that's from a warm LED light)

I keep turning wood in six places (that I can remember). I should probably look more often. Or keep notes somewhere.

In addition to the chunks of burl in that shed there was a shelf of manzanita root balls, a huge slab of myrtle, and some 2 and 3" thick planks of persimmon drying about 9 years now. (If you haven't turned persimmon, you should try it. It's hard and cuts clean, is related to Ebony, sometimes called American Ebony or White Ebony.)

Yikes, I have WAY too much wood. Come visit in E. TN and help use it.

JKJ

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Brian Mcinturff

Looks like maple to me!

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Ric Taylor

Do You Need My Contact Information For Your Will? 


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John K Jordan

That might be a good idea, none of my kids are interested in this stuff. You might have to take some lathes and big saws and sanders and welders and things too.

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David Walser

That might be a good idea, none of my kids are interested in this stuff. You might have to take some lathes and big saws and sanders and welders and things too.

Be careful of the incentives you'll be creating! I've heard some turners say they'd kill to get a burl cap like that one. I never thought they were serious, but....

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darrin hill

happy to get some mailed to me... :)

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Rum

Sold!!! I'll be willing (under duress of course) to take it all. My main goal in this regard is to have my unfortunate heirs have some consternation as to what the actual .. this person was doing. Of course having a lot of fun along the way is no small part :D

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Dick Strauss

Maybe your grandkids will be interested when the time comes to worry about it!

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William Duffield

I think it's big leaf maple, Acer macrophyllum. You probably got it the same place you found the manzanita and Oregon myrtle. They all grow in the Pacific Northwest.

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darrin hill

any of them for sale?

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John K Jordan

I tend to accumulate wood rather than sell it.

When someone visits we either grab some and turn it or I try to give them some to take home. I offered wood to JL who visited today but he said something about sending "coals to Newcastle." (Newcastle was a coal mining center in England. Had an abundance of coal.)

That big maple burl has probably been in that shed for over 10 years. A bunch of manzanita root balls/burls also. I pulled everything out today to see what was what. Some local maple, cherry, some english walnut, some mystery wood. Some I cut myself, some traded, some bought. One small round near the front I got from David Marks long time ago.

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JKJ