Here is more of Bird and Fortune. You can search for more on YouTube:
These guys crack me up! So does the Onion with brilliant articles. I’ll pick one out from today’s edition. That didn’t take long. Alda is one of my favorite actors! He is a big science booster too. See https://www.theonion.com/people-editor-sweating-bullets-after-dedicating-next-1848395413
The cherry wood adventure has gone through a rather major change. After much pondering, Ive decided we’ll just mill the logs into wood useful for a diversity of crafts and leave it at that. One friend came by and took all of the crotches for bowl turning. I’ll cut bowl blocks out of the tree, some planking for trims, some for flute case wood, maybe some instruments and even some for wood block printing. As far as my friends at the Printing supply, I am brokeriung a much better source. edensaw is sitting on mountains of Eastern Cherry and can theoretically d all the slicing and dicing necessary to make stable wood blocks made from a layer of 1/8” veneer on a substrate such as Baltic Birch. Its much better than a single workshop doing this and I am worn out from moving just a few pieces. Alden and I will wear ourselves out processing these logs but it will be worth it.
There are wood poachers who would steal this wood. Cherry goes for $4 a board foot, ready to use. My log measures about 8’ and is about 18” round of one ignores the bark. This works out to around 450 board feet - double that with the other saw logs. At half the $4 price the wood is still worth around $2000. The wood poachers usually grab maple and send it to China in a container. One of these cut 3 ancient maples down on the mostly unbuildable 17 acre parcel at the top of our street. He actually took hardly any of the wood as it wasn’t fiddlebacked enough. He said he had permission from the property owner. I wish I had called the cops on him! These guys steal from parks, the National Park, peoples’ yards, etc. So the other night I heard a big crash at 4AM and immediately though someone was busy loading that log onto a flatbed with a winch. Instead it was a sound generated by the box my guitar came in blowing down in the porch.
I do have a wildlife camera that would witness this.So far the only thing it has witnessed were a few bats apparently using the now clear airspace above the driveway as a commuting or migration route.
also a few dogs and one mystery creature. Cat or Raccoon?
I intended to write much more - but the day got the best of me. Next post will be an actual on-topic update on the Glass Flute progress.