SteveJ
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A friend gave me three well aged cedar logs - he had them sitting in his garage for over fifty years. Each were a little longer than 3 feet and about 6 inches across. I cut about a foot off one and then sliced boards about 3/4 of an inch. Then, without access to a planer, pushed them through my Byrnes sander (six inch maximum width) about a hundred times to get them all to close to the same thickness. Then edged glued to create boards suitable for cutting on the ring master. I did one earlier and finished these for his kids now since he is moving out of state early next month. I also included a pen from the same log. I think I will pay someone to create boards out of the other pieces! Each bowl is finished with a couple of coats of shellac and then a couple coats of high gloss poly.