A cabinet shop gave me a zillion mahogany cut-offs. 2X6's about 10" in length. My new Jet mini has sure had a fun workout. I've made enough bottle stoppers to cork Napa Valley's yearly vintage, enough small bowls to hold the world lettuce crop and enough small boxes to contain a retirement home's bric-a-brac. I need your suggestions for ways to embellish my 'old hat, 'same ole- same ole' usual designs. There are lots of lists of things to make, but not so much on gussying up standard small bowls & boxes, and what is available has been done so often that they have become standards themselves. viz, Raffin, Stott et al........and me!
Mahogany is bland but not unattractive. It turns easily and takes vinegar-iron ebonizing well. It's much too good to waste, but the 2X6 size limits bowl design, at least for me.
Like the old song," I don't want to set the (art) world on fire", I just want to make some unusual and different boxes & small bowls, Not tops, whistles, yo-yo's and garden dibbers. Remember that I am only an intermedite turner, whatever that is, and no, I don't want to ship the stock to your shop. ;) Arch
Fortiter,