An October 1 post……………………………………
I really didn’t have anything to post. My mind was a blank. I’m getting to the end of my time for getting things finished by the 18th. I just started the last part of the last piece that I’m going to do for the show. That makes three pieces that are in progress that will need to be done in less then 3 weeks.
One of the things that I dread when working with wood is the waste. As I was plunging this bit into this thick piece of mahogany, it bothered me that the wood I was removing was just going to go in the waste can. I was thinking how beautiful the color is when the wood is freshly cut. I was thinking how that this 2 inch slug of wood, that had been attached to the tree and had been curing for the last 40, 50, sixty years, was finally coming to it’s end by being removed to be thrown into the waste. So I decided to document it’s end for posterity.
I just wish I was a little more creative and could figure out what to do with those little curls of this incredible material.
Tags: art, Boring, Drilling, Fluff, Mahogany, Paul McClelland, PM Custom
October 1st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Do they smell good?
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Funny that you ask. Mahogany isn’t as aromatic as say lignum vitae, but it does smell. The minute it hit my olfactory, a million memories flooded my mind about everything related to that smell. Sitting in the woods while dad cut the stuff, those blue smoke filled hammocks where he would be cutting with the chainsaw. All that stuff. The varnish covered walls in the old turning room at the back of the shop………………..
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 am
Very cool.