Yesterday was a long but fun day.
I'm going to be assisting Steve Sinner with deep hollowing classes at Marc Adams school of woodworking and Arrowmont this spring & summer. So we decided to start getting wood for the classes today. Steve & I started the day off harvesting a hickory & a cherry tree. About a 40 mile round trip to and from the timber. Weather as sunny and about 25 degrees with about 6" of snow on the ground. We harvested enough to rough out some were between 50 to 60 vessels. Steve brings some dry roughed out pieces for each student & the schools supply the green wood for the classes. So each student gets to work on roughing out a green piece & finishing turning a dry piece in the class.
Everything went smoothly with that. So after we had some lunch and unloaded the wood we went ahead and started working on the roughing outs. We managed to get 6 pieces roughed & studio cleaned up before we called it a day.
Now only about 50 or so more to rough out. I think there's actually a lot of work preparing for these classes that is unknown to a lot of people. But it's all part of it.
Any way it was a long but fun & productive day.