Wood Turning #89 A Magic Wand

Let me start off by talking about the intro!
This week out beside The Tiny Trailer Workshop there were two alder trees who had reached the sky and had given up the ghost! They have lost quite a number of branches over the last while... and one of these days ... Now to be fair... the tree would do more damage to the house... but if I was in the shop at the time I don't think even a face shield would help! In any case a fellow came out and took care of them... both had a decided lean towards the shop... without causing much panic at all... (there was one branch that as it came down smacked the trailer enough to release all the magnetic clips holding the cupboard doors open)
So a magic wand! This is an extra large one for those hard to cast spells! The wood that Ron brought me has a mahogany kind of look to it... maybe the stuff we don't see regularly as I would assume that it is ... coming from a pallet.. more of an off cut... with more of the sap wood (lighter) striations in it. But it fit just right. I am afraid that my off center turning was undisciplined and as such looked a little uneven... er? The next one I do will have a more methodical approach to it... it should give it more of a spiral effect... we will see!
You will find a Cedric episode at the end of the video and I think that is where I will keep him... he has his own channel (or a least it will become his own) so he can become a little more distant from the woodworking... but I will put an annotation to him each week just so you can see how he is doing if you want to!
Well I want to thank you for watching and I hope you all have a good week
Larry
Oh Yeah! Today was the official Anniversary of my channel. So I guess I must have been late just so I could make this connection!
Thanks for putting up with me for a year!
Larry