redfishsc
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Here is an urn I just finished, and the story behind it. Feel free to skip the story, it's a bit preachy.
About a year ago, I lost one of my best friends in a car wreck. He was 20, was being sold booze at a bar illegally, and he left drunk in the wee hours of the morning. His car was found wrapped around a tree.
It took me entirely too long to make this urn. Two things slowed me down. First, my midi-lathe was entirely insufficient for this and isn't set up for faceplate work anyhow. It's a pen-spinner, not a bowl hog. So when I could afford it, I bought the Harbor-Fright
eek variable speed lathe. Actually worked fairly well.
Second. It's an uneasy thing to make an urn for a friend whom you've spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours fishing with. He was the best fishing buddy I've ever had, other than my own Dad.
Many times when we'd fish, we'd encounter drunk folks. Robie was a teenager at the time and I'd point out to him how bluntly stupid these guys were. And they always proved me right. There are so many ways to make a total idiot of yourself when fishing drunk, they never failed me. I grew up with an alcoholic, which almost totally destroyed our family over and over, for two decades. Robie lived with an alcoholic. So I tried to teach him, best I could, why he should avoid it.
Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to keep Robie from it. Anyhow, no apologies about the sermon, maybe someone here will take it to heart. Have a beer when you are legal but stay sober minded always. Stop the booze long before you think you've reached your "limit".
I don't want to have to make an urn for any of you guys for this reason!
Here are the pics.
Curly walnut (the curl in the top piece doesn't show well). Ash for the stripes. The lid is pine taken from a house that was torn down that was pre-Civil War era.
About a year ago, I lost one of my best friends in a car wreck. He was 20, was being sold booze at a bar illegally, and he left drunk in the wee hours of the morning. His car was found wrapped around a tree.
It took me entirely too long to make this urn. Two things slowed me down. First, my midi-lathe was entirely insufficient for this and isn't set up for faceplate work anyhow. It's a pen-spinner, not a bowl hog. So when I could afford it, I bought the Harbor-Fright
eek variable speed lathe. Actually worked fairly well. Second. It's an uneasy thing to make an urn for a friend whom you've spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours fishing with. He was the best fishing buddy I've ever had, other than my own Dad.
Many times when we'd fish, we'd encounter drunk folks. Robie was a teenager at the time and I'd point out to him how bluntly stupid these guys were. And they always proved me right. There are so many ways to make a total idiot of yourself when fishing drunk, they never failed me. I grew up with an alcoholic, which almost totally destroyed our family over and over, for two decades. Robie lived with an alcoholic. So I tried to teach him, best I could, why he should avoid it.
Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to keep Robie from it. Anyhow, no apologies about the sermon, maybe someone here will take it to heart. Have a beer when you are legal but stay sober minded always. Stop the booze long before you think you've reached your "limit".
I don't want to have to make an urn for any of you guys for this reason!
Here are the pics.
Curly walnut (the curl in the top piece doesn't show well). Ash for the stripes. The lid is pine taken from a house that was torn down that was pre-Civil War era.
