[crw-talk] Spurtlizing and Dibbling around

[Mwt]

Hello members,

Can’t say I have not been up to no good at all!  Someone added to my pile of wood with some walnut limbs with a relatively small diameter of heartwood, with the heartwood being maybe 3/8 or 1/2 the overall diameter.
Not very desirable at first then it occurred to me to incorporate the sapwood/ heartwood contrast into turnings.  So check out these spurtles and the dibble second from the left for interesting color contrast.

The dibble on the left is...(drum roll here) redbud.  We had a branch on our redbud tree die over winter and I had no clue what it would look like, but it is very pretty wood.  No, it won’t replace cherry and walnut but it is quite attractive.

Those of you who have read the most recent American Woodturner may have noticed the article about a segmented bowl made of branches cut into segments with the end grain facing out.  Much of the walnut I was given has had preliminary milling done for such a bowl and I have the preliminary milling done and the rough segments are drying in bags.  Mid July I plan to finish that project, if the wood permits.

Stay safe my friends and tighten up your Covid prevention habits as it is in the rampage in LaX County and Winona County.  Still a low count up here in Buffalo but that could change in a heartbeat.

John

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