Ah, summer...

Long hot days, plenty of sunshine so I can work as much as I care to, and by golly, I am gittin' 'er done.

Today I started with some boards that I sawed out of some slabs of silver maple yesterday:

I planed them down and sawed them to width and length - once I finish sanding them they will become cutting boards like this one:

I created a nice heap of chips and dust:

And because it wasn't hot enough I burned that pile this afternoon. Then it was just about right.

Then we had a nice sunset. All in all a good start to the summer.

These are the days...

Another picture story

Start with this, a silver maple tree over three feet in diameter in your backyard:

Saw it into chunks four inches thick:

Select the chunk with the best figure, I liked this one:

Then turn a bowl:

Silver maple bowl, 14" in diameter, almost 4" deep.

Piece of cake. You can too, ask me how.