lol
y'all know me so well,and sounds like your more interested in poking my ribs than this stave
well...spent a lil time on her this morn and got her just starting to floor tiller and bend a few inches...don't need any pics of that..this is one of those pieces of wood that just loves to tear out all over the place no matter how well I run a tool...oh well...rasp away....
I then decided to cut around the knot in the handle following the grain around it...and boy oh boy is it gonna look sweet when done
there was more meat to that side anyways...its still has a concavity in the belly of the handle that I might have to fill a little with glue n dust...we'll see when we get there tho...might have to leave a naked handle too to show off the grain of that knot
if you go back and look at the side view profile after I cut it out you can see two knots exactly the same distance from the handle 6" away from the fades right before the limbs reflex back up...well they are punky inside and must be removed....oh darn
that's one of my small pointy grinded screwdrivers that help me dig out punky wood...as you can see in this case ill take it and a hammer and drive it thru
sorry for the upside down pic..someone mustve spiked me coffee this morn
....and after digging the rest out we now have two small holes in the stave
so I weighed the stave after all this and recorded it and its still a whopping 38 ounces....whew...got me some dense hedge...no wonder it looked thin for how far it was bending....sweet
I do realize theres a small amount of moisture that needs to be lost yet,but that s some nice wood....so ill let her sit for a lil bit before getting serious with her
