How LongDoes It Take To Make One Of These?
· Do you mean… not plant the tree,but find the wood, just 'see' the piece, (as if I could)? to find a highlyfigured burl, a crotch, an eye, or pearly curl?
· And once I spy it, perhaps buyit, inventory, store, and dry it?
· Then saw or cut it, possibly kilnit, glue, imbue with fill, or drill it?
· You mean, that once I'msatisfied it's stopped the warps, checks, cracks, once dried?
· And mounted on the lathe, toturn it, (which takes much practice, just to learn it. Then employ a gouge, ortwo, or use a skew, which I don't eschew, to mold it, shape it (what's yourpleasure?) by all means, I'm sure to measure. Then sand it smooth, please wearyour mitts, from coarse to fine, 10,000 grits. Then braze, or burnish, paint,or polish. The goal: enhance, and don't demolish?
· Is that your question, start toend, how long's that path, its way to wend?
· Or do you merely want to knowhow long it turned?
· Tenminutes, or so!
