Cutting bowl blanks

Very interesting and sweet moment!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

never turned Honey Locust, but i never pass a chance at walnut. 3 gallons? darn, i thought i was bad, i don’t use a gallon a year. looks like a good time, keep us posted

-- It's not a sickness, i can stop buying tools anytime.

I need to get a lathe! Looks like a great gang to be a part of!

-- Cov, Loomis, CA, http://www.covingtonwoodworks.com

Great post ..looking forward to the related projects !

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

i’ve only had a lathe for 10 years.. if i could just keep one power tool.. it would be my lathe. i may not turn any for months.. then need some legs, then maybe a lidded bowl.. i

-- It's not a sickness, i can stop buying tools anytime.

Thanks for posting the photos, Terry. It was a great day full of fun, fellowship, and education. I highly recommend to all you turners out there joining your local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. I have learned more from this group than I could possibly learn from books, DVDs or on my own. Check out the AAW homepage @ woodturner.org

Here is a sneak peak of the first hollow form from our bounty.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Holy cow Joe. You are an animal! I can’t believe you had enough energy to turn when you got home. My wood is still in the truck. Running that big Husky with 32” bar wore me out. I will turn something tomorrow.

I think Trifern turned it while driving home.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

wow…i need a chain saw…for some reason it intimadtes me tremendously (as it should, right?) but yesterday a friend loaded me up with a huge stash of rounds from a cedar tree that was cut down last fall…

SO I NEED LESSONs…ANYONE WANT TO FLY TO NAPA???

Thanks for sharing what looks and sounds like a great day…

JOE…going to check out the turning group you mentioned right now!!!

-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007

Now this woodworking! Old friends, new freinds and wood! It is really great to see this!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Looks like you guys were knee deep in saw dust ;-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Oooooooowh . . . . Wow! I am drooling on myself. That’s some nice black walnut.

I watched our neighbors oak tree come down this past weekend. If I liked oak I would have been fratrinizing with the tree cutters. It was an 80+ ft. tree with multiple large trunks and it took them two days to cut it down and haul away 99% of it. There are a few 8-10” slabs left on the curbside, but I’m stocked up with maple logs, and well, I’m not into oak.

Now, black walnut, well that’s a different tune . . .

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe