Turning Firewood?

[Tom Hintz]

Every time I heard someone say they "made firewood" when making a mistake at the lathe, I wondered if we could reverse that process and make good projects from firewood. I decided to give it a try.
See the link below to see what happened.

http://www.newwoodworker.com/turning/turnfirewood.html

[monte]

Nice work Tom!

[Radman]

Who would have thought to do that? Great write-up and nice work!
Tom[8D]

[JeffW]

Outstanding work.

[Whaler]

Very nice and a great idea.

[Bruce Platt]

I also scrounge my deliveries of firewood. Often finding some nice pieces of spalted maple in this part of the country. Along with other interesting looking woods that I couldn't identify.

And an added bonus, if the project doesn't work out you still have firewood.

[germdoc]

Great work! I'll think of you as I burn up the cord or so of box elder and spalted birch in my woodpile.

Don't worry, I'll set aside some for turning...

[Scottydont]

My preference in my locale is maple. The firewood guys apologize for the burly twisted pieces but I look at them as wood porn for woodturners. I can usually get some nice burls and splated pieces from it.

Great job Tom.