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Turning a natural edge platter?
arcos:
I think that that pine plates used to be the order of the day over here!
bodrighywood:
There's pine and there's pine. Some is sticky 'orrible stuff, some is so soft it is useless for anything other than the fire and some is gorgeous grain and surprisingly hard. I have turned some things out of pine that have been lovely to work and the wood has been beautiful. Only you can decide if it is worth using.
Pete
BrianH:
A pro woody told me once that he had tried a sideline in smoking cheese for a local deli. Oak shavings worked fine, apple were reet tasty but pine gave the product an interesting detol flavour. :-\
Brian
Bryan Milham:
Detol, an interesting analogy, as Turpentine is extracted from Pine trees.
However in days of yore plates were made of wood. Tall ships sailors had wooden platters with a hollowed section called Trenchers - leading to the modern expression 'Trencherman' although now mainly used for a gourmand.
bodrighywood:
Trenchers were actually in common use with everyone, not just the sailors and most eating containers were bowl shaped originally and only became plate or flat bottomed when eating at tables became more accepted and possible.
Pete
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