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Offline Zuma

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Went Bowlin today
« on: July 30, 2014, 10:28:24 pm »
The weather here has been fall like. Moderate temps and low humidity.
Just right for shade tree bowlin.
Zuma
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2014, 10:30:01 pm »
Very cool
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Offline TRACY

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2014, 12:08:38 am »
Nice work!


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Offline chamookman

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2014, 05:26:20 am »
WOW - very nice ! Bob
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Offline Blackcoyote

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2014, 09:15:57 am »
damn those are sweet, nice work!
Drew - St. Johns, Michigan

Offline Bone pile

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2014, 09:49:34 am »
OK it's spalted what? Did you turn it? I see a brush and a beer ,are you putting a beer finish on the wood? ::) ::) ::) questions questions. other than that they look very cool.
Bone
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Offline RidgeRunner

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2014, 09:52:53 am »
Tools, Tools...  What tools did you use?????

Thanks
David
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2014, 12:20:33 pm »
very nice work....

Offline Ozzy

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2014, 02:03:22 pm »
Very Sweet!!!!!!!
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2014, 02:42:54 pm »
Great members here. Thanks

Spalted Sycamore, preformed last year. I keep them dry and cool in the basement.
Chisels, gouge , then a grinder with 2hrs of hand sanding.
I would rather drink the polyurathane than brush a beer on a hunk of wood
Roger. lol >:D
Zuma
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Offline RidgeRunner

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2014, 09:09:14 am »
Got to get me a big Gouge or two.... and a Bowl Adze.
May have to make the Adze.

Thanks
Very nice carvings.

David
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2014, 03:44:10 pm »
Gouges are sweet when it comes to curved  surfaces.
Here is what the chainsaw can do instead of a adze.
My chain saw is a 1968 model and qualifies as primitive. lol
Also I made a spalted maple bowl. My first.
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Offline longbow man

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2014, 09:22:06 pm »
    Unbelievable. Gotta sharpen my tools and try to catch up. Do you do anything special to keep it from checking? Chants, bowl dance or mystic stuff?

Offline Zuma

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Re: Went Bowlin today
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2014, 11:58:16 pm »
longbowman,
I try not to start with a green log.
Something that has been dead or down for a while.
If there are no major checks then I start the saw.
Sawing out the core and preforming the outer walls so
the work is reasonable thin.
This gives the bowl somewhere to shrink to.
Then I put it in a cool dark place for a year where I dance around it
with a small dehumidifier uttering chants and shaking bones and feathers.
Sometimes it works.
Zuma
If you are a good detective the past is at your feet. The future belongs to Faith.