Hello from NW Arkansas

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Larry C

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Larry
Long time sawyer, woodworker, and woodturner living on a small acreage overlooking Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas. Active member of the Stateline Woodturners in Rogers Arkansas. Also do a bit of mentoring for woodturning and flatwork. At 75 I'm still eager to learn new stuff so that's why I joined this forum.
Larry


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Mike Davis

Mike Davis

Mike
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Wiley's Woodworks

Wiley's Woodworks

Wiley
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Wooo Pig Soooie. I was born and raised in Cammack Village, which has been swallowed up by Little Rock since I lived there. I too am 75 and now live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I make extra efforts to work with local woods--white oak, red oak, walnut, maple, and eastern white pine. Are you sourcing most of your trunks from your own property? BTW your photography is jury quality; looks like you have some sort of studio set up.
 
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Larry C

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Larry
Wiley's Woodworks said:
Are you sourcing most of your trunks from your own property? BTW your photography is jury quality; looks like you have some sort of studio set up.
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I get some logs from my property. Had a 36" white oak die last year which provided me with a few hundred foot of good quartersawn stock. Sometimes buy logs if cheap and get others from storm damage or tree service guys.

I have a quasi photo studio set up. In a spare bedroom I have a roll of photo paper on a pipe attached to a wall. Pull the paper down for my backdrop. Lights are just common daylight bulbs.
 
wbarnes

wbarnes

Will
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Wiley's Woodworks said:
Wooo Pig Soooie. I was born and raised in Cammack Village, which has been swallowed up by Little Rock since I lived there. I too am 75 and now live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I make extra efforts to work with local woods--white oak, red oak, walnut, maple, and eastern white pine. Are you sourcing most of your trunks from your own property? BTW your photography is jury quality; looks like you have some sort of studio set up.
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I was also born and raised just outside of LR. Glad to know I’m not the only one who made it east.
 
Wilsoncb

Wilsoncb

Williemakeit
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Welcome to the group. Just thinking about Arkansas makes me hungry for some of that farm raised catfish from that part of the country.
 
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Larry C

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Larry
mpeele said:
Welcom, so do we now have an Osage Orange connection?
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Not really. I had a lot when I lived in NW Missouri but there is not so much here in the Ozark mountains. Folks here would not know what I'm talking about if I said osage orange. They call it bodark.
 
Wiley's Woodworks

Wiley's Woodworks

Wiley
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Larry C said:
Not really. I had a lot when I lived in NW Missouri but there is not so much here in the Ozark mountains. Folks here would not know what I'm talking about if I said osage orange. They call it bodark.
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That's bois d'arc, French for bow wood, for folks who grew up where it grows. Its other common name is osage orange. It's a dense hardwood with springiness in it good for tool handles, and it burns really hot.
 
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