wolf creek knives
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So here we go,...my first bowl with a huge history behind it. This is a bowl made out of Valley Oak burl. It came from my home in the Sierra Nevada foot hills in California when I was working for Chevron (long story and not worth the time but I did commute 88 miles each way to San Ramon). The tree was next to our garden shed and it had been growing for some time. So I decided to harvest the Burl not knowing what would happen to it. That was in 1987. Fast forward to all the problems I've had with it. It weighed about 45lbs when I cut it out, give or take. My first attempt at turning it was not good, it actually broke the face plate on the lathe (I replaced the face plate). The second (1988), and last until recently , it broke loose from the face plate, hit me in the chest (big bruise) and then bounced off my chin (just a cut, no stitches). Then it sat, for a whole bunch of years, until recently (34 years later or there abouts). I decided it would be turned into a bowl or turned into fire wood. It got turned into this bowl. It measures about 9' in diameter and 3" deep, far from what it started out. Now this piece of wood not only hurt me, both physically and mentally, but it got hauled around for a bunch of years. Why?...I'll never know. My wife loves the bowl and uses it for decorative items for each season, it weighs about 10lbs now. The bowl insides were done using a parting tool cause I didn't have the right tools to finish the inside as it should have been. But the bottoms flat. It took me 4 hours to "scoop" out the inside. It now resides in my home in my home state of Montana where there are no Valley Oak trees anywhere (that I'm aware of).
Thanks for looks and appreciating...I think!
Thanks for looks and appreciating...I think!
