Three small Hackberry bowls

Nice job on the bowls!!

Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

These are beautiful bowls and nicely done.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Nice bowls.
PS If you are in a hurry instead of using the paper bag method of drying the wood for weeks you might research using the microwave oven methods. I do it all the time. There is lots of info on the internet about it so I won’t elaborate here. I still use a brown paper bag but no shavings. It works like a kiln.

-- Les B, Oregon

Very nice and the wood is beautiful!

-- We all make mistakes, the trick is to fix it in a way that says "I meant to do that".

Thanks for the comments guys. In Texas the Hackberry trees are considered a trash tree. Not long lived and they are on almost every fence line on farms around my area. I had a hackberry tree blown over onto my chicken house and most of it got cut up to burn in the heater but I did turn a few green pieces and now I’ll be watching for more hackberry.

Les
I have watched one youtube of a guy drying green wood using a microwave. I need to look at this ideal closer. Don’t know how the wife will feel about me using her microwave for drying green wood.

wcp