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This is a piece that was a cut off from the box elder maple that I and other members of our club took down because of storm damage a few months ago. As you can see it had quite an infestation of box elder beetles!
I am testing a new gouge, and I had 45 minutes I could spare on Saturday for putting a grind on it and trying it out. So, I looked around at my stash of small blanks and decided to get this one out of the box.
It is 5" tall and 3.5" wide at the shoulder and hollowed by hand with a set of mini hollowing tools from PSI [must be why my fingers are a bit sore today! ] I much prefer the Monster rig, but that was over kill for this one!
I have a good number of large blanks from this tree............looking forward to weather cooperating with me to get a few of those turned into some larger items!