I entered the nested set of oak burl bowls in a contest on another site this fall and won. Here are the prizes I won. I received a wonderful 3/8” detail gouge from Doug Thompson http://www.thompsonlathetools.com/ soon after the final vote. It has been used a lot in the short time I’ve had it. A truly wonderful tool for sure as all Doug’s tools have been. I turned a handle from some bird’s eye maple which makes it one of the prettiest turning tools in my collection. I also received a ½” bowl gouge from Seanhttp http://www.toolnut.com/ at the Tool Nut. I’ve used it a several times since receiving it and it is very nice, should prove to give me many years of use. I would have posted early with the Items won in the contest, but Mike Smith http://www.easternncwoodworkers.com/ wanted to deliver the bowl blanks to me, so that I wouldn’t have to pay shipping on all of them. For those that don't know it Mike lives just east of Raleigh in Middle Sex. Since I was in the middle of Deer Season this was the first weekend I had free for him to drive around 600 miles round trip to deliver the blanks to my house in person. We had a great day talking about wood and the world of turning. The wood he brought is wonderful and I hope to post some pictures of some turnings this winter and spring that I get out of them. We also had a little fun loading up two little rounds of silver maple onto his trailer for him to take back to the eastern part of the state. The first one went on with little trouble the second one went up even easier. The problem with it is that the mud on the bottom made it slide across the metal bed of the trailer and off the other side. It took us another 2 hours to get it back on the trailer. I didn’t have a camera but each round weighed around 1500 lbs and we got them up on a high trailer using a come a long and a lot of effort. Here are a few pictures of the wood from Mike and the tools both Doug and Sean sent to me. The last photo is of my holding six bowls of the cored set that won the contest. The seventh bowl and biggest in the set was given to the person who gave me the burl so it isn’t in this picture.
Jack Mincey
Blanks are big leaf maple,claro walnut, and the stack on the right are curly redwood. Mike also gave me a slab of the side of one of the BLM logs he cut that has a lot of burl in it.
I turned the handle for my thompson gouge from birds eye maple. Makes it easy to pick out of my other tools.
Jack Mincey
Blanks are big leaf maple,claro walnut, and the stack on the right are curly redwood. Mike also gave me a slab of the side of one of the BLM logs he cut that has a lot of burl in it.
I turned the handle for my thompson gouge from birds eye maple. Makes it easy to pick out of my other tools.
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