Helping Jorge
One of our woodturning friends, Jorge Castaneda, needs our help. Jorge’s shop roof collapsed due to all the snow that we have received along the Maine coastline this winter. Luckily his equipment survived but he is still left without a viable building to produce his work. Jorge is primarily a bowlturner and sells his pieces …
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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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Zeke’s Burl
Recently we had an open house/shop tour and one of our neighbors came over to it. Of course living here in the western foothills of Maine, neighbor is a relative term. They live on the ridge opposite of us, so probably 3/4 of a mile away by road. Anyways Zeke and Joyce came over to …
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My first salt cellar
Of course it happened because of a custom order but, after all of these years of making salt and pepper mills, I finally made my first salt cellar (sometimes they are referred to as a salt pig). This salt cellar was made from the same 7 color laminated Birch blocks that I made their pepper …
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Ribbon time
This past weekend I demonstrated woodturning at the 2014 Downeast Wood Carving and Wildlife Art Show put on by the Maine Wood Carvers Association. I was making textured and colored spinning tops. This year for the first time the show was held at the Lewiston Armory in Lewiston, Maine. I would like to thank …
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Teaberry Arts Council Art Walk August 17th
The Teaberry Arts Council has been hard at work creating the first ever Teaberry Arts Council Art Walk that is taking place in Rumford, Maine on August 17th from 4pm till 9pm. The Teaberry Arts Council is planning an Art Walk at the Rumford walking trail by the tennis courts in the Hosmer …
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