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Teak Talks: 2005/09
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. This bowl is, appropriately, made from grapefruit wood. Here is the story of how I acquired the wood and why the bowl has cracks in it. In May of 2005 I sent my parents a pair of eggs made from this wood. The branches that I used were rather heavily cracked, but the dense woo...
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Teak Talks: 2005/08
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. Flood-Aid recommendation - CERF. This post is in response to Glenn Reynold's. Instapundit) call for bloggers to list a charity or other organization that can provide aid to the survivors of Katrina's wrath. CERF, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. If you are a crafts person yoursel...
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Teak Talks: 2005/05
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. Weed Pots and Walnut. Besides being decorative, weed pots are also functional. They are designed to hold miniature arrangements of dried flowers, grasses, and, well, dried weeds. A slender weedpot containing a carefully chosen assortment of grasses two to three times its ...Weed ...
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Teak Talks: 2005/04
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. An Egg of a Different Color. At a party last February, a friend called me over to look at a small log from the hostess' firewood bucket. I could not identify the wood, and neither could the hostess, but she graciously allowed me to take the log home with me. Here's a view of the ...
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Teak Talks: 2005/07
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. Cascara buckthorn, Rhamnus purshiana. Grows at lower elevations in moist areas like those suitable to red alder. In such conditions a mature tree. Just outside the heartwood in the log is a barely perceptible ring, which unfortunately did not appear on the box made from the adjac...
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Teak Talks: 2005/05
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. SF and Smart Shoppers. I went to the Oregon Mensa Regional Gathering. The after-dinner keynote speaker was Donna Shirley, who is currently the Director of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. In Seattle. Founded by Paul G. Allen and Jody Patton,. Definitely a good weekend!
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Teak Talks: 2005/06
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About wood and woodturning, observations of nature, links to things I find interesting, and other topics at whim. If you like the woodturnings shown here, please come visit my new. Shop at NoSkewTurns.com. To see my latest work. It's a Worse Law than I Thought. Update: I just reread more carefully the definition of "specialty wood" that I quoted in my previous post,. And I realized that the problem is even worse than I thought. Here's the definition again:. Specialty wood" means wood that is:. Species...