Sticks and Stuff

[Bugbear]

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I have a few more pictures from this last batch, so I'll get them out here.

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These are branches I cut from my lemon tree earlier this year to be carved into walking staffs. I sealed the ends and cuts with wax, which I also spilt all over my studio floor, and I'll let them dry down for a year or more. I left the bark on them.

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These are a couple of walking sticks that I am working on. The branch stick is saved from one of the almond trees that I removed from my property; the rest of the wood went to artists. I haven't decided what to carve into the knob on the end.

The other stick is an ash handle for a garden tool that I found in the back of the property about eight years ago. I like the long cracking in the wood, and it sands up fairly smoothly. I will need to fit it with a knob or handle of some sort. All of them will be for use around the place out here. I guess I'm not going to move, so they'll be gardening sticks.

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These are a couple of the bonsai containers I have made. They are unglazed ceramic. I'm saving them for my own trees when they are ready to be potted.