Natural edge bowls

I’ve never turned any but I used to have to trim one. Long nasty thorns. I lived in Tacoma for many years, but I’m in the desert of California now.

-- -Willing to try

Never heard of it here in Tennessee. Looks good.

-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16

Joe, looks like your wood turning is doing fine! Glad to see you having fun and I really like the live edge on the bowls too. Keep up the fine work!

-- $tudie

hi like your sense of hummer cool picture is the camera still working ha ha
love the natural edge of your bowl
hawthorn it s grows every where here in Ireland all hedge s and ditch s are made with the horrible stuff you can t go near it in the summer time with the thorns the are about 3 inches long and if you get scratched with it the scratch will fester and take a long time to heal . i have turned it when it is dry it is very hard to turn but has a nice Gran
we make waking sticks with it in Ireland you cut it as low to the root as postal and get a natural curve in it
keep the bark on it and just sell it with sealer and varnish it all the old time farmers never when anywhere without there hawthorn stick and the came in handy as a weapon all-so
here is some website wit picture
http://www.google.ie/images?rlz=1T4GGLJ_enIE335IE335&q=picture+of+a+hawthorn+walking+stick&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=c8CsTNX1KJ-
U4gaI393SBw&sa=X&oi=imageresultgroup&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQsAQwAA
or go into google and type in pictures of hawthorn walking stick it wil come up
hope this works and give you the information wanted.
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Darn! I didn’t get any of the small trimmings or I could have made me a cane or two. Gotta get a new camera too. Dang thing I have makes everything look old. Going shopping this afternoon, might get a new mirror too.

Thanks for the info. Cool website, bet the canes aren’t cheap in the US.

-- JoeR Nothing that I could make will ever be perfect but I'll use it anyway.

Love the live edge. And very interesting information about the Hawthorn tree and Irish Hawthorn walking sticks. I learn so much multi-cultural global stuff here on L/J. Thanks!

-- Homer : "Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain."

Well, I really like it because of it’s unique shape and the bark is really cool on it.

-- RStadler