My First Blog

Well this is cool, a blog of my own. To share and to inform others of what is going on in my life at this time. This past week I have worked on 4 different turning projects. At the beginning of the week I received a couple of burls from Maple trees. Burls are growths on trees a little like warts that protrude from the tree trunk, or limb. In the burls you can find some of the most amazing wood grain patterns, usually very random throughout the burl. When turned the piece usually shows the extent of the random grain and growth inclusions