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New natural edge bowl

  I hope that everyone had a fine New Years eve and day. The bowl pictured above is the first new piece that I’ve added to my site in the new year. The bowl was hand turned from Curly Maple and features a natural edge running all around the wooden bowl. The bowl is approximately …

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Ornament time

I don’t know what it’s like in your house but in our house we love to watch all the Hallmark Christmas movies. This year the Hallmark channel had Christmas movies in July, tying into the whole Christmas in July thing. Then they started showing new Christmas movies on Halloween weekend. So, needless to say, I’ve seen …

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Going Stir Crazy?

It just seems like it’s been one of those winters. People in the cities are screaming about how much snow they have gotten and for them it probably is a lot. However for us in the western mountains of Maine the snowfall amount has been about average, so far. At this time of the year …

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Headed out to Cape Cod

  Here are three Curly Maple Salad Bowls that are headed to Cape Cod. Well they are actually already there. I sent these bowls out a couple weeks ago to Woodworks Gallery in Brewster, Mass. I just haven’t had time to post about them. The largest of the three bowls is 14 inches in diameter …

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Which would you choose?

                          If you were looking for a unique piece to put into your home and the two pieces above were all that you could choose from, which one of these would you choose and why? Incidentally both pieces are ones that were donated …

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Check out this mill set

This is a special 8 inch salt and pepper mill set made in Maple, Oak and Walnut that I just finished up for a customer. The block starts out as 24 layers of 1/8 inch thick wood that has been laminated together. There are two layers of Maple, one layer of Walnut and two layers …

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