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Hi all, it’s been quite a while since my last post. My consulting business has kept me busy, along with a new hobby business: gunsmithing! I am working on my requisite certifications, licenses, and whatnot hoping to launch in the first quarter. It will be a good mix of my mechanical abilities (I am a Mechanical Engineer by training) and woodworking on stocks. Anyway, here is a pecan bowl made from a newly felled tree with sentimental value to my client’s family. It was GREEN when I got the logs and my clients hoped to have it before Christmas. (It is late). I decided to use Pentacryl to treat this one, since pecan has a bad habit of cracking severely, especially at the knotty spots. The plan worked great, except the drying took a bit longer than we had hoped. It was worth the wait, I think. It is 12” in diameter and about 4” tall.
Stay well!
-- patience is a virtue ... in woodworking, cooking, and life in general
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Bearpie
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#1 posted 104 days ago
Very nice bowl. Did you notice that there is a mummy’s head inside the bowl wearing sunglasses on the first pix?
-- Erwin, Jacksonville, FL
Monte Pittman
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#2 posted 104 days ago
Beautiful piece
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
DocSavage45
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#3 posted 104 days ago
I agree, nice work. You must be busy…NO inlay…LOL!
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helluvawreck
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#4 posted 104 days ago
That’s a real beauty.
helluvawreck aka Charles
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#5 posted 102 days ago
Amazing bowl! Love the shape and great finish which really made the wood grains pop.
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#6 posted 100 days ago
Beautiful!! Love the Wood and Finish!
Thanks for sharing
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