OOPS! For some reason, when I thought dogwood my mind pulled up that
picture and I quit thinking. SWMBO would probably ask when I started
thinking but that's neither here nor there. This is Red Bud, not Dogwood.
And I only had the one piece in dogwood which looked like Gerald Ross'
picture. Well the wood looked like Gerald's -- I really butchered it which
is probably why I can't find a picture of it. Seeing Gerald's picture made
think about my post and the obvious thing was that there were three turnings
there not one. One would think that would be an obviously clue that the
picture was not of the one item I turned in dogwood, One would be wrong.
So, like Emily Latella from the old Saturday Night Live show always said --
"Never Mind".
[signs off shaking his head muttering about how this must be the male
equivalent of SWMBO yesterday being given a senior citizens price for
coffee]
"Scratch Ankle" wrote in message
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In response to a request in rec.crafts.woodturning
This is a picture of a couple of things I did in dogwood. The one on the
left was turned green while the other two were turned about a year later.
The finish was just tung oil so I attribute the color difference to the
difference between wet and somewhat dried. I really liked the one on the
left and it was pure luck to catch the grain like I did. The one in the
middle had those two bad spots that were totally hidden until I started
turning. I finished it more as an exercise in fixing voids and cracks
using epoxy with some coloring than anything else. In the end it wasn't
all that bad but even though the log had aged a year, it warped while the
green one on the left did not at all.
This is about the extent of my experience with dogwood and I have little
overall experience anyway. Just started two years ago and haven't done a
lot the past year due to respiratory problems. I just had a dogwood that
needed to be cut down right at the same time I started turning.
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