I don’t usually write two blog posts on the same subject but I’m making an exception today. I just finished a pommele sapele wooden bowl that has extraordinary figure. Those of you who follow my work know that I really like highly figured wood and this piece certainly fills the bill there.

It all started with an email from Microsoft saying they would no longer support my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 tablet computer. That means the door is wide open for the bad guys to do what they do to unprotected computers. It was 14 years old which was past retirement age for a computer anyway. It ran on Windows 10 and could not be upgraded to Windows 11

Besides being a great shop partner, my wife Pennie is also a very talented “plant lady”. She has worked at our local Lowes store in the garden department full time as a live nursery specialist for 23 years and now part time the last 2 years. She spends the rest of her time in her own garden and sewing things that she sells at craft fairs.

My wife Pennie takes my green bowls out of the soup (denatured alcohol), paints them with Anchorseal and wraps them in brown paper. I’m not sure she enjoys it but it’s something she has always done for me. The fun part is unwrapping them and she usually takes part in that operation too.

This beautiful curly black walnut fruit and salad bowl has a repaired stress crack. The crack occurred while the bowl was drying.

Logs destined to become bowls.

Some of you know how much I despise the back-end work of operating a website/ecommerce site. Taking the pictures, making the videos, doing the SEO. I realize that it’s not logical, of course you must do it or there isn’t any content. No content, no sales.

I have Jennifer Garner to thank for my new woodturning student.

As you may remember from a previous post, I’m listing some of my items on a new platform called Goimagine. The platform gives 100% of their profits to children’s charities and everything on the site is legitimately handmade. The site is still very new but today they added a new feature for sellers, an analytics tool.

Another new sales platform!

I have had terrible problems with my shoulders for the last several years.