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Here is a new Curly Maple Salad bowl that I just added to my website. This wood bowl is 10 inches in diameter by 3 inches high. This Curly Maple bowl even has some Birdseye figure in it. The bowl features a rounded undercut rim and has a nice curved shape to it. …
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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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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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As many of you know, I like colorful things. A lot! I like to add color to plain pieces to liven them up. Recently I’ve been making ash mills and dying them all one color. Sometimes I add a liming wax to knock the color down and it adds a secondary color to subtly contrast the base color. Those …
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I watched a woodturning demo a while ago by Al Mather. He happens to be a friend from Princeton, Maine. Al was demonstrating how to properly use the skew. For those that don’t know, the skew is probably the most feared tool in woodturning. We all make mistakes (catches) from time to time while we …
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