Now that I've learned how to resize pictures I'm playing catch-up.
2nd gloat is spending the week before last at the John Campbell Folk School taking a class in hollowed forms from Doug Barnes. A great way to get many months of experience condensed into a week with a 1st class instructor looking over your shoulder. What a bargain and what a relaxing week in a beautiful locale. Learned a lot!
2nd gloat - after deciding that my Jet mini was big enough to handle my hollowing needs I overhear the school's director (Doug Barnes) talking about a Powermatic 3520 that they were going to raffle off at the AAW symposium in Richmond. It was used for 8 months as a demo lathe for the instructors and is autographed by the instructors. Their problems - not knowing how much the raffle will raise and the logistics of getting the lathe to Richmond. My solution - they should sell it to me. It was put in a U-Haul trailer with a fork lift and I worried the whole way back to Pensacola about how to get it out of the trailer. Unbelievable luck, as my neighbor, a former Atlanta Falcon, is having a keg party and he and his football playing buddies pick it up with their bare hands and sit it in my garage. Luck of the Irish!
The hollowed form was done at the school, is maple and about 9" high (ex finial) by 7" wide. It was freshly cut, my 1st end grain and the most pleasurable thing I've ever turned. It has a bloodwood insert and a Brazilian cherry lid. Wet wood and end grain is the way I want to go. Sorry for the poor photo - the piece is already in my office so I can't retake it.
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Originally Posted by BILL DONAHUE
