It’s been a good week for new wood. I was closing up at my local ‘woodies’ and a guy called in and asked if anyone would be interested in some plum which he’d just cut down. Very nice timing and definitely; very interested!! Never had the opportunity to turn plum before but thought it could be quite promising. So, I followed him home and loaded up a bootload, including the main trunk (with the graft line very evident) several of the larger branches and the rootball. Over the next few days I roughed it into bowls and gave a couple of pieces my mates. The rootball remains – despite copious waterblasting, I’ve killed 3 chains and it’s still not ready for the lathe. It might very well end up being attractive firewood. All the ‘roughs’ have been sealed with endcheck and put away to dry. Hopefully they won’t split or warp too much, because they look like they could be pretty good. Just finished roughing the plum and found a guy advertising on Gumtree giving away a leopard wood tree, which I'm trying to get to. Life is good . . . . . . Jeff http://ift.tt/1nVG6Fa
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