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Just in time for transplanting our tomatoes to the garden.
The handle is air-dried spalted Silver Beech ( nothofagus menziesii) from our very own forest. The dibble is recycled Rimu ( dacrydium cupressinum). The rimu is more water resistant than the beech.
Nothing extraordinary but it does represent one of the first projects that I took all the way from tree ( or in this case branch) in our forest to useful wooden object as well as being a bit of a diversion for me to get into wood turning. No sketchup design for this one!
Finished with a light coating of linseed oil ( it is just going in the dirt after all).
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
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moshel
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posted 388 days ago
what sort of glue did you use? you could enter it to the gorilla glue contest!
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daltxguy
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posted 388 days ago
haha – I think the gorilla glue contest is over already. I used Titebond II actually. My bottle of Titebond III is still on the slow boat from Canada.
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
SteveRussell
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posted 387 days ago
Hello Steve,
(Like your name by the way…:-) Great looking dibbler! It reminds me that I need to get going on my new garden area, so it’s ready for the spring planting. Happy dibbling and take care.
Steve Russell
Eurowood Werks Studio
The Woodlands, Texas
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daltxguy
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posted 387 days ago
Steve,
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate them coming from an accomplished turner like yourself.
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
MsDebbieP
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posted 386 days ago
looks handy.
I like it
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MsDebbieP
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posted 386 days ago
you should post this over at GardenTenders.com
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thetimberkid
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posted 386 days ago
Looks great!
This is mine
Callum
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daltxguy
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posted 385 days ago
Nice one timberkid! I like the idea of turning in the depth measurements. I didn’t think of that!
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com
sIKE
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posted 384 days ago
Steve,
Looks great, must feel nice to go from Tree to completed project!
-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"
CedarSlayer
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posted 235 days ago
Being from Texas, I had to make mine to scale.
Bob
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daltxguy
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posted 235 days ago
Whoah! That is big! I followed the link to your website and I see that this is for planting shrubs and trees. Very cool. Of course we just use planting spades but using a wooden tool is far cooler.
Thanks for posting. Btw, I’m from Texas too and now that I have some Texas sized land here in NZ, I’ll probably be making one of these. We’ll be wantin’ to plant some pecan trees this winter ( next few months here)
-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com