Tom Baugues
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I found this tree limb laying out on a country road. The area had recently been cleared of all the trees and were hauled away. This limb was mostly rotten but I picked it up and brought it home anyway. Now that I have my new Grizzly band saw I decided to cut into this limb to see what it looked like. About 3/4 of it was still solid wood and looked very pretty. Lots of grain...kind of red-ish looking. I cut some of it up into 1 inch pen blanks. The giant black ants (I hope they were just ants) went everywhere as I cut into it and found cavities where they were living. As I cut this up it got me to thinking....Even if I made something really beautiful from this wood the first thing someone is going to ask is...."What kind of wood is that"? Now I would guess that most of you either know what kind of wood you have or can recognize it by its bark or leaves from the tree. However if you do not know what it is.....do you turn it anyway? Now...my wood may end up being simple oak (by looking at the grain) but I really have no idea.
So my question is....If you don't know what it is...do you turn it anyway?
Tom
So my question is....If you don't know what it is...do you turn it anyway?
Tom