This is a piece of beech lets see some of your finest figured woods.

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My inheritance

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Wow!! Looks like you are going to be busy for a while!!!

Had a lot more but my nephew got solid cherry bunk beds my daughter has a solid cherry crib and my twin nieces got beech cribs
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being the new guy, I'm curious, what do you do with all those thinner pieces? Do you glue them together and then try to turn them?

No most of that wood is not plug wood to be honest. The thinner stuff can be used for any number of things.
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In the top picture , that board looks spalted. Wear a msk when working with it.

Beautiful board and it looks like a nice pile of wood on the rack!

nice plank. Looks like some 5/4 chunks in there that could be saved from the wood stove.

I made this from some sweet tiger maple I bought at a lumberyard in bristol, vermont... it has a candlestand slide on one side

nice plank. Looks like some 5/4 chunks in there that could be saved from the wood stove.

What's up Mike. Haven't seen you in a long time hope the new old lathe is treating you nice.
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I made this from some sweet tiger maple I bought at a lumberyard in bristol, vermont... it has a candlestand slide on one side

That is some beautiful work
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I spun a darter up out of a piece of that Beech that was spindle sized.

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I made this from some sweet tiger maple I bought at a lumberyard in bristol, vermont... it has a candlestand slide on one side

How did you make those legs? Beautiful job!

How did you make those legs? Beautiful job!

I have made queen ann legs before with a spoke shave and band saw but I bought these tiger maple from tablelegs.com in VT. Huge time savings... I brought one leg with me to the yard in Bristol to match the wood... another trick is to bring a small hand plane with you when you buy rough planed wood to get a better look at the grain pattern

Another excellent source of top quality table legs is osborne wood products.

chris

What's up Mike. Haven't seen you in a long time hope the new old lathe is treating you nice.
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just starting to turning again Mark.you know how it is, life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. got some spalted maple, some nice fiddleback sycamore, a few cherry burl chunks and just scored some black maple- all bowl blank sized. no pictures, sorry. they are all rough cut and drying in bags in the basement.

my legs look just like those.

Beautiful work Chris

just starting to turning again Mark.you know how it is, life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. got some spalted maple, some nice fiddleback sycamore, a few cherry burl chunks and just scored some black maple- all bowl blank sized. no pictures, sorry. they are all rough cut and drying in bags in the basement.

Beautiful sounding stuff. Please put pics up here or on FB I'd love to see it. I finished my first plugs In a couple of years this winter. Good to see you on here bud. Hope all is well.
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