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Tool marks on end grain

As I told Tomislav, quoting some one from a song about "Buddy Bear and the still" "kind of like the jitterbug, it plum evaded me". I still don't get this cut, but I am working on it.

robo hippy
 
Aaron Harris said:
I'm out the door here in a few for Matt Monaco's platter class at John C. Campbell: I'm ready to up my platter game.
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Aaron, I’d love to hear how your platter class with Matt Monaco was. I’ve had several classes at Campbell (Trent Bosch, Dixie Biggs, as well as a banjo making class and most recently mushroom foraging- all terrific!) and looked longingly at the description of this one.
 
Lou Jacobs said:
View attachment 78522They sure do. The class always fills very quickly. We learn not just identification, but also medicinal uses and cultivation. Brought home these bags that have been growing oyster mushrooms we’ve been eating for the past week or so. View attachment 78523
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I should pass this info. along to one of my fellow market guys who is "the mushroom guy" for some gourmet displays and restaurants around our area. He always gives me shrooms for garbage bags of shavings I bring him, though other than stir fries and such, I'm never been quite sure what to do with them.

Lou, do they make you sign some kind of legal release just in case one of their class graduates ignores all they learned to harvest and eat an Amanita death cap?:oops: I have heard of such happening with fatal results.
 
Aaron Harris said:
Lou, do they make you sign some kind of legal release just in case one of their class graduates ignores all they learned to harvest and eat an Amanita death cap?:oops: I have heard of such happening with fatal results.
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No Aaron, no release, but plenty of cautions about being confident in your identification before consuming. The teachers are a husband and wife team, she’s the president of the Mushroom Club of Georgia, and also a pediatrician. They both are incredibly knowledgeable. She started one class with a discussion of the woman in Australia who poisoned her in-laws by feeding them a beef Wellington made with Amanitas. I have to say that while we learned an awful lot, and gained an appreciation for the critical role of fungi in the world’s ecosystems, I’m nowhere near ready to go out foraging for personal consumption. Possible exception would be morels (as John Jorden posted earlier) and chanterelles. Maybe Hen-of-the-woods too, but otherwise I’d still rely on experts to assure me of what I’m eating. In the class we did do lots of eating g of what we foraged. Here are a couple of pics of some of our tasting menu.
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Aaron Harris said:
Lou, do they make you sign some kind of legal release just in case one of their class graduates ignores all they learned to harvest and eat an Amanita death cap?:oops: I have heard of such happening with fatal results.
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PS - They say that the conventional wisdom is that when you’re eating what you foraged, if you’re not certain of it, save one or two in a paper bag. That way when you go to the ER you can take it with you to try to get a clear identification of what you’ve eaten - if it’s not too late!
 
Webb Willmott said:
Can a shiitake mushroom purchased from a store be used to populate a bag of shavings as seen in the previous post’s pictures?
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I think you’d have to get the spores from it. We did also bring home logs that we inoculated with spores that should produce in six to eight months. The spores we used were from a commercial mushroom cultivator.
 
Lou Jacobs said:
Possible exception would be morels
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Just be aware of the dangerous "false morel". From the photos I've seen, I can't understand how anyone could possibly confuse them. But I guess some not closely familiar with morels might not be visually tuned to the differences.

JKJ
 
Hmm, the version I heard was "There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots". From aviation. Made me think of those wing suit guys....

robo hippy
 
robo hippy said:
Hmm, the version I heard was "There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots". From aviation. Made me think of those wing suit guys....

robo hippy
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I was a young and not-getting-any-younger pilot, trained with confidence but not the least bold. But I went hyper alert, into instant overdrive at the first sign of anything unusual. Like the time the engine quit on takeoff, sudden strong side gusts, the time the windshied suddenly fogged up on rotation, or clear air-turbulence on landing which suddenly slammed the plane down about 10', throwing manuals and things from the back seat into the front. That one may have been from a downdrafts from thunderstorm a few miles away. I do know someone who died from a spin on takeoff - senseless.

JKJ
 
In my days as a hang glider pilot, I spent the first 2 years on the training hill. Anyone can fly the dang things, but the take off and landing is the hard part. I had a friend who had just gotten into paragliding, powered. He got killed in a low altitude stall.

robo hippy
 
robo hippy said:
Hmm, the version I heard was "There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots". From aviation. Made me think of those wing suit guys....

robo hippy
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With the exception of Chuck Yeager. There has never been a more bold pilot. He pushed the envelope as a test pilot to the extremes, and should have been killed many times over, but lived to be 97.
 
robo hippy said:
the version I heard was "There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots"
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Yes Robo, that’s the original version.
(So much for worrying about thread drift…)

I got my private license when I was in high school. On the wall of the hanger was a plaque that said “He who hoots with the owls at night can’t expect to soar with the eagles in the morning.”
 
I found a bumper sticker once with the caption "Aerobatic pilots do it up side down". I did put that one up in my shop..... The old hang gliders I flew could not do full on loops. The modern ones can.

robo hippy
 
Takes me back to an air show where an "old" guy was flying Piper Cub. He took a shot glass of whiskey and put it on his dash. During his flight he did a couple of loops, and not sure what else, but landed on one wheel, then drank the shot glass.... If I was going to do power planes, I would have had to do aerobatics!

robo hippy
 
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