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Beautiful Firewood Piece

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Jeff Gilfor

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I am not a complete noob (been turning for several years and carving for several years before that), but wanted to share the beauty that nature (God) sometimes tosses at you.

Here is a small (about 8 inches tall) HF weed vase of, what I believe to be spalted maple, that came from a piece of firewood that I started to cut into for bedan practice. Once I noticed the spalting, I changed my mind and made it into this vase. Gotta say that the spalting pattern is some of the nicest I've ever seen.

Firewood pile can yield nice stuff!!!!
 

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A beaut, for sure. Fortunately, Bedans cut all woods the same, so practice is available anywhere.
 
Excellent. Use scrap 2x4's or something like that for Bedan practice. That way you can just toss them when done. However my first article for Woodturning Design was a skew practice piece that looked like a tall spindle birdhouse. All done with the skew (but could have been done with the Bedan). They were all done turned with 2x2's cut from 2x4's.
 
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