Wood Carving Tip

NEAT WAY TO HOLD YOUR INSTRUCTION SHEET SO IT IS NOT IN YOUR WAY!

Ed Sesack participated in a story about wood carving on Long Island

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Monday,  13 August  2012   

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Woodcarver Ed Sesack 4:13 Syosset, NY title: From Light to Wood

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WOOD BUTTER!

Wood Butter?  What?  You’ve heard of regular butter, peanut butter, almond butter, apple butter, but wood butter?  Sounds tasty, eh?  Well, you probably don’t want to eat this stuff.  Have you ever eaten dutch oven mutton?  Actually , it is one of my favorite meats but it has to be almost burned to a crisp.  It’s pretty tasty but you need one of those rubber spatulas your wife uses in the kitchen to scrap the grease off the top of your mouth.  Hey, I didn’t say it was healthy, just good!  I’m sure wood butter wouldn’t be as tasty and you would definitely have to use the spatula after eating it.

All kidding aside, wood butter is used to keep those wooden spoons and bowls in your kitchen treated so they sparkle and shine and don’t dry up and crack.  I’m sure some of you have built a cutting board and used mineral oil on it.  Well, wood butter is an even better treatment.  My daughter brought the recipe to my attention and pinned it on Pinterest.  Click here for the recipe!  This is a great treatment for woodworkers who want to put a shine and preservative on those turned bowls, cutting boards, or other woodworking projects.

Please note:  Housewives, I assume no liability for your husbands making and bottling this in your fruit jars in your kitchen.  You might want to help him out.  Source: CLICK HERE   

Wood Butter Recipe : Click Here

Quotes...

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
                                                   -Charles Kingsley

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Anybody can become a woodworker, but only a Craftsmen can hide his mistakes!
                                                   -Walter Blodget
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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
                                                   -Brigham Young

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
                                                   -Emily Dickinson

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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
                                                   -Abraham Maslow

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Wood Worth Seeing!

Woodcarving Exhibit

During the month of June there will be a Woodcarving Exposition featuring many woodcarvers, and in particular Helmut Schilling of the Long Island Woodcarvers Association. If you have the time check it out!

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Wood Carving Illustrated Index

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Thank you Yorkarvers of York, PA!

This is a video I think you will find interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxVElGPpG48&feature=youtu.be&a

keep carving...Ed

Master Modeller Builds Unique Matchstick Armada

79-year-old Phillip Waren has spent the last 62 years of his life creating incredible ship models out of old mtachsticks and the wooden boxes they used to be packed in. He started building his amazing matchstick models when he was just 17, using the things around him, and since matchsticks were much more common back then, finding large supplies was a very easy task.
The master modeller, from Brandford, Dorset, has created every ship built in the Royal Navy since 1945, as well as 60 other ships from the US navy and other impressive floating fortresses from 18 other nations. One of the largest ships in his collection is the famous USS Nimitz, the largest aircraft carrier in the world.

Ironwood's toxins help it outlive termites

Today's question: Reprinted from The Arizona Republic
I do woodworking and use native Arizona ironwood sometimes because it is similar to rosewood and quite beautiful. But it is highly toxic and I must wear a respirator to keep from inhaling the sawdust. What makes it so toxic? Is it safe to burn in a fireplace?
Ironwood is pretty interesting stuff. Did you know it's a legume? I didn't until I started looking into this question. Being a legume means it enriches the soil with nitrogen.
Anyway, about its toxicity. Do want to know how toxic it is? It is so toxic that it takes 1,600 years for a hunk of ironwood to decompose because the termites and other critters that might chew it up can't handle the chemicals.
I couldn't find a full list of ironwood's toxins, but they seem to mostly be toxic alkaloids that probably are hard to spell.
On top of being toxic the leaves of some varieties are hallucinogenic.
As for burning it in your fireplace, that doesn't sound like a good idea.
Ironwood is just about the heaviest, densest wood you can find, so much so that it doesn't float in water.
On the Sonoran desert it serves as a nurse plant. That means its foliage protects the seedling and sapling of some other plants from extreme heat or cold and from solar radiation. The oldest known ironwood was determined to be around 800 years old, but their average age is about 200 years.
Ironwood may grow as a multi-armed shrub or as a tree. The largest known ironwood tree grows near Gila Bend. It is about 49 feet tall and 14.2 feet around, according to the Arizona Register of Big Trees.
Reach Thompson at clay.thompson@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8612.

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