Tool marks on end grain

[Kent Reisdorph]

I suspect the aggressiveness possible is related to the amount of practice and level of tool control!

Exactly this. I caution new turners about watching RR, Tomislav, et al, early in their turning career. I point them all to www.turnawoodbowl.com for basic training. Then they can go back and start trying to be Richard Raffan.

 

[robo hippy]

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

 

[Lou Jacobs]

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.

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.

 

[John K Jordan]

mushroom foraging

They have a mushroom foraging class at JCC??? Learn which are good and which will cause a horribly painful death?

I find morels on our property every spring (when the weather is right). The Lovely Bride loves them! (fried)



JKJ

 

[Lou Jacobs]

They 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.

 

[Aaron Harris]

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

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? I have heard of such happening with fatal results.

 

[Lou Jacobs]

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? I have heard of such happening with fatal results.

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.

 

[Webb Willmott]

Can a shiitake mushroom purchased from a store be used to start on a bag of shavings as seen in the previous post’s pictures?

 

[Lou Jacobs]

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? I have heard of such happening with fatal results.

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!

 

[Lou Jacobs]

Can a shiitake mushroom purchased from a store be used to populate a bag of shavings as seen in the previous post’s pictures?

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.

 

[John K Jordan]

Possible exception would be morels

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

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Then there’s that saying that there are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but no old bold mushroom hunters . . .