Saturday, April 30, 2022

Raw material

 


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  1. Is it bad that my first thought was that is some large bacon

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    1. Nope. No sir. Not bad at all.

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    2. ME TOO! Lately I've given up on bacon, it all seems to be just pig fat with occasional bits of meat in there...somewhere. Even the premium brands are mostly fat. I saw that and thought, "If bacon were that meaty, I'd go back to buying it again."

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  2. While replacing a water heater in a friends store I found a very nasty piece of wood behind it, a 2x4 about 4' long. Probably been back there for decades. I threw it in the truck and brought it back to the shop. I ran all 4 sides through the planer and trimmed up the ends. The most beautifully grained red cedar I had ever seen. I machined it into smaller pieces, glued them up, and turned them on my lathe into 4 gorgeous bowls that I sold on Etsy for $30 each. From a nasty piece of wood. You can't judge a wood by it's cover.

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  3. Looks like Juniper

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    1. More than likely cedar. The smell would tell but I may be completely wrong only been a carpenter for 30 years.

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  4. Bacon was my first thought also.

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    1. Even God loves bacon, so much so that He made wood resemble it.

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    2. Really thick bacon, from even bigger pigs

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  5. Build me a table with benches.

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