ARGH DANG.
It's not Almond, but a lovely piece of Apricot.
Thanks George, can't get it wrong can I.???????
Cheers,
Bob.:redface:
Hi Bob, yes you can mate, if I only had a "twenty" for every time I have made a mistake, I would be a very rich man...!
Is not difficult to see why the confusion, the bark is very identical, such is also the transition between heartwood and sapwood. The only one thing that caught my eye was the spalting, Almond doesn't spalt but the old Apricot trees do, and do it well, as the piece you beautifully turned shows, clearly...!
I didn't realise how thick that bark was, sure I cut that blank but, I didn't noticed it until I saw your piece, getting any small bark to 1/4" is a challenge, do it on such bark length, would be nerve wrecking, for sure.
The most amazing thing is that, the bark is not a solid piece of the same length all around, there are huge differences between the highs and the lows, some parts seem to be holding by a "thread", getting to the end with it still there, that is an achievement...!
Well made piece, congrats...!
PS: I actually picked and ate (with Merissa) the last Apricots that tree produced, the tree was dying from Termite infestation, in a fruit garden that was totally contaminate so, I removed all the old fruit trees, salvaged what I could and burn the rest with the Termites still present in the wood, this is the most effective way to avoid further contamination to other woods that aren't yet affected. The fruit yard was planted in 1971, just a few months after the farmhouse was built, inscriptions on the chemine ...!
The 2 best bowl blanks the tree produced, you got one and the other was made into a salad bowl as requested (to use in their kitchen...!)
I thought you would like to know, I haven't wrote that much about all the old fruit trees I salvage from that yard in 2013, in fact, my our last job at tree work...!
Cheers
George
