Yappy dog catches the car

[Eugene Dixon]

Always asking for crotches and burls. May have caught the car with this one

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Base is about 30X24. There's another branch behind the chainsaw and the saw is sitting on a cut off crotch.

Now where do I cut that first bowl blank?

[Fred Perreault]

It could be that there is no good way, only the best way. I have never been lucky when trying to hack up good blanks from crotch cuttings that have more than 2 legs. Of course, I may not be doing it correctly, but it seems that when more than 2 legs, the extra legs seem to cause some kind of problems, whereas 2 legs often times can provide some fabulous herringbone, or feather, type figure. Some others may have more experience than I.... let's wait and see

[Tony Rozendaal]

In my experience the optimal cut is through or (near) the pith of the two largest branches. It may require a longer bar than you have on that saw. What you make will be decorative as opposed to utilitarian so knots, cracks and pith are of somewhat less of a concern than otherwise.