Thanks, I read through the website, sounds like a couple of decent people. I think I'll start with a pint and see how I like it. The shipping about doubles the price, if gas wasn't so expensive I'd just drive down and pick some up.
Remember, if you have flat black walnut, you can always use it for accents in ring glued bowls, or you can use it for staves in a stave glue-up. The air dried walnut is always blacker than commercially available. (at least in my experience) But I don't keep spring wood-- I use it in the smoker. Phil
Yeah........we have billboards about those Walnut Bowls down in Tennessee.
The stuff (walnut) does stink, even dry. Walnut dust has a peculiar stifling quality about it.......and a very bitter taste, A dust mask only helps so much. I some problems with this particular piece wanting to tear out on the inside of the bowl. I still think its nice wood, though. But, I don't turn very much of it.........maybe there's a subconscious reason.
don't turn very much of it.........maybe there's a subconscious reason.
I *could* be subconscious. %-) I haven't noticed any smell after it's finishes and the smell while turning it doesn't bother me at all. 'Course, being a nurse, I may be slightly less distressed by smells than some. ;-)
The town, if I remember in Mo. is Lebanon. Drove past it a couple weeks ago. I was thiking about stopping in and seeing if I could buy a few pieces of the wood. Anyone know if they sell?
The Pilgrims had rifles AND pistols? Lot of good they'd've done them if the locals hadn't shared and shown them how to GROW food (to say nothing of not just killing "them damn immigrants"..
So when Iraq has their constitution, since they already have a sh*t load of rifles and pistols and RPGs and ...., then they'll be safe and secure?
Afgahnistan probably has more rifles per capita than any place else in the world. As I recall, they have a constitution as well. How's that working so far?
Personally, they'll, to quote "Moses" (ok so Charlton Heston really isn't Moses but it sounds good) "have to pry my trebuchet from my cold dead hands!". Once you get it dialed in a trebuchet is an extremely effective self defense weapon.
The billboards I have seen are coming back from Gatlinburg towards Nashville. I believe the billboard may be near Lebanon, TN (talk about your coincidences). The bowls of this type I have seen are laminated from smaller pieces of wood and very mass produced and much the same shape.
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