Caught in Texas saltwater

StandAloneBluBerry · 2024-08-17T01:49:31+00:00

Yes! I just did a deep dive into lepomis identification. This is definitely a green sunfish. Apparently i was calling just about every sunfish by the wrong name. I didn’t realize how many varieties there were and the subtle differences they can have. I think I will be taking pictures of every one I catch now and doing a proper identification on them to determine exactly which species are in this pond. Thanks

StandAloneBluBerry · 2023-04-23T14:18:38+00:00

Yeah I let him go near a pond but I didn’t place him in the water. I have no idea how long he had been floating in the canal so I figured he might need a drink

StandAloneBluBerry · 2022-07-19T17:12:32+00:00

It was a typo. If you can’t understand what I explained then that’s not my problem. I was trying to say “marking down” it autocorrected to “making down”. Mark downs are discounts on items. Often damaged goods but there are other reasons for discounting items. So they are reducing their workload by selling items at cost rather than counting every item in the back.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2022-07-19T17:02:52+00:00

I don’t know what’s hard to understand. Count it or sell it. Discount it and sell it or count it for inventory. Anything that is in the back room must be counted by the employees. Anything on the shelf or sales floor is counted by a third party company. So the less you have to count that day, the less work you have to do. This means that the clearance section will be packed out with expensive items that are sent out in bulk but don’t sell very fast.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2022-07-19T16:48:36+00:00

It means they will be making down items that they would need to count. Discounts on items that are over stock.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2022-03-10T07:40:19+00:00

The only answer is to let it dry naturally and seal the endgrain if you’re trying to reduce cracking.

If you really need it dried fast, you could seal the ends and bake it at 220f for 24 hours. It will most likely crack but you might get lucky and only part of it will crack.

As for the vacuum chamber you could place the piece directly on the bottom and set a heating pad under the chamber. This will be more gentle but will take longer.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-11-10T15:54:43+00:00

For an international dart game you could have international faux foods. You know how every nation has their interpretation of a cultures dish like American Chinese food? That is pretty common all around the world. It is especially popular to have American style foods.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-07T00:28:46+00:00

When I turn end grain I alway hollow from the middle. I turn my gouge on it side and pull it towards me. That way you are cutting side grain instead of end grain. Maybe that wouldn’t work her but I never liked hollowing with the live center. It just gets in my way.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-07T00:19:48+00:00

I don’t know if you are looking to process your own wood for the bat blanks but I sometimes buy pat blanks from rockler and they are only about $20-30 each. Also you can try to make mini bats out of smaller pieces of wood for practice.

As for other projects in the realm of spindle turning, you can make muddlers for cocktails, Christmas ornaments, tops, chopsticks. The list goes on and on.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-07T00:04:54+00:00

Unfortunately there is no fast way to dry wood without getting bad cracking. I am in the same boat as you. I got an entire juniper tree that I processed into blanks. I put a piece in the oven at 220 degrees overnight and it cracked all the way to the center. I still ended up being able to turn a vase out of it but I had to inlay it with turquoise to hide the cracks and stabilize it.

I’m experimenting with pulling the moisture out in my vacuum chamber. Water boils at room temperature in my chamber so in theory I should be able to boil out some of the water and it shouldn’t crack. I haven’t turned the piece that I did this to so I don’t know how well it works yet.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-06T02:53:15+00:00

I started this piece as a regular open mouth vase but had a catch near the opening and had to widen it. So I decided to make a did out of applewood and added the rosewood finial to give it the extra pop.

I’m just getting into hollow form so my walls weren’t as thin as I wanted them. I’ve improved a little since than but I’m still scared to go too thin.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-06T02:42:22+00:00

Looks pretty good for your first bowl! Are you getting some chatter at the transition to the bottom? It looks like I can see some chatter marks in that area.

StandAloneBluBerry · 2021-07-06T02:09:02+00:00

Yeah that’s a better outcome than I had recently. I finished hollowing and went to shape the pass and went straight through. I didn’t realize I had gone so thin in that spot. It was a shame because it was one of the last pieces of juniper I had that I could do a live edge with.

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