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1945 Red Mallee Burl
Goblet/Box with Lid
Goblet/Box with Lid
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1945 Red Mallee Burl
1945 Red Mallee Burl.
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odie

1945 Red Mallee Burl

Completed 12/23/2021. Red Mallee Burl. 6 11/16" x 2 1/4". 14.5 oz. After roughing, it took 8 months to stabilize the weight for final turning. Sanded to 600gt, Danish Oil Natural, Beall 3-step buff. Undercut rim. Very nice, and somewhat rare, is the outstanding dark and light contrast to some of these Australian Outback Red Mallee burls.
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Great looking bowl wood is impressive would have to as 1945 year of my wife's birth. You keep yourself busy and do great work.
 
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Peter White said:
Great looking bowl wood is impressive would have to as 1945 year of my wife's birth. You keep yourself busy and do great work.
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Thanks Peter..... :)

I've been getting comments about the relationship of years, to my current inventory. I've decided to skip the 2,000 numbers and go on to 2100, just so there is no question to when my bowls were made. It's just an inventory number, and is meaningless beyond that! ;)

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John Hicks
Nice work! How come all I ever seem to get is cracked firewood? o_O
 
odie
John Hicks said:
Nice work! How come all I ever seem to get is cracked firewood? o_O
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Ha,ha.......:D

Wood does what it does, and the more you turn, the fewer rejects you get because of what you did, or could have done better. I had a nice big Moroccan Thuya Burl that had a huge void right in the center.....it was a total reject. In block form, it looked great, but the center had a tennis ball sized void that I just couldn't work with. The darn thing cost me over $200! :mad: What's left might be good for someone cutting it up for pens or laminations, but for my purposes, it was a total loss. You just have to learn to eat the loss, and move on to the next bowl......eventually, you forget how disappointed you were, when something great happens later on! ;)

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