Last week I finished turning 9 weed pots for my wife. Sandy always does her gift shopping in my shop. I guess she does that because the price is right. Since I have a last minute bazaar this Saturday and she doesn’t need the weed pots for a couple weeks I am taking them to the sale. Out of the 9 weed pots Sandy has a favorite and one she really dislikes. All the pots have a ½" hole drilled from 2 ½" to 4" deep.

The sun came out and as soon as I set up to take pictures the clouds came back. Sorry about the quality. The colors are close but the figure doesn’t show very well.
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From left to right; mulberry burl, filbert, bigleaf maple, apple, cherry
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From left to right; apple, mulberry, bigleaf maple, cherry root.

When I was looking for some mantle clocks I had put away I found several turnings that I had set aside for some reason or other. The spalted alder, holly and bigleaf maple had distorted and the frog cup would not fit. That was pretty quick to fix as opposed to doing complete turnings. The alder bowling pin, as we call it, needed the tenon parted off. The cherry frog had been dropped and had to have the rim returned. More stuff out of the shop. If you haven’t guessed, Sandy gave frogs for Christmas last year. When I got 9 good ones the rest went into a box for later. The frog cups have prongs for holding dried or fresh flowers.
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From left to right; Spalted alder, holly, alder crotch, cherry, bigleaf maple.

This is the first sale I will be doing with nearly all turning items. On to pens and bottle stoppers.

Dave Smith

Will trade turning lessons for photograhpy lessons in Longview, WA.