Not been in the shed for at least 4 weeks as I have been at shows on the weekends and sorting out during the week for the following one. Anyway at one of the shows I picked up two rounds of beech and gave the man a nice crisp fiver they both were a good 18" if not more around the only down side is they had been cut to about 9" long.
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The first one I split with a club hammer and a small axe nearly knackered me as I only have 1/2 a heart working.
This is the results of the first one.
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Anyway the wife took pity on me (she did not want to see me back in hospital) and brought me a little present.
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Yesterday morning I spent making/casting pen blanks.
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Then the afternoon I roughed out some of the log blanks.
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onto today I completed the bigger blanks and still have some more to make some small boxes and maybe a couple of vases/hollowforms not decided yet
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And both days worth with a 1foot ruler for scale
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Now all I need to do is let them dry and hope I don't get too many splits normally I don't have a problem when I rough them out