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Dave Polaschek
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Lilac and juniper shaving set
All wood except for the base of the stand is lilac from the overgrown bush in our yard here in Santa Fe. The base is a chunk of juniper from limbing up one of our trees a couple years ago when the USFS was setting fire to New Mexico.
The brush is a silver tip badger brush. The DE razor is not great quality, but I haven’t found a source for the good adjustable razors. There was some pretty nice figure in the lilac, which shows mostly in the cross-piece of the stand.
The brush is a silver tip badger brush. The DE razor is not great quality, but I haven’t found a source for the good adjustable razors. There was some pretty nice figure in the lilac, which shows mostly in the cross-piece of the stand.
May you have the day you deserve!
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Dang that's purdy!
Wow, Fancy! Great job!
No name noobie here
Neat! That lilac is really nice.
nice shaving set dave. it would be no use to me though since i use an electric razor.
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Nice wood, good set. Well done.
Ron
Nice figure in that lilac, and the juniper looks good, too. I thought you had a beard, Dave?
Steven- Random Orbital Nailer
fancy wow GR8 JOB 😍😎👍
SO GLAD you like grinder 😎
SO GLAD you like grinder 😎
*TONY ** Reinholds* ALWAYS REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN
Really nice!
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
Thanks, folks.
Haven't had a beard since mom got Alzheimer's, Steven. Over a decade now.
I've been impressed with the lilac. I've been pondering helping some of our neighbors trim their lilacs back in exchange for the wood, but that sounds like real work, and few of them have lilacs as overgrown as ours was. One more big branch to come off it after it blossoms this spring, and then it should be mostly under control, but with branches too small for this sort of thing. Oh well.
Thanks again, Tony! The grinder gets used just about every time I turn on the lathe.
Haven't had a beard since mom got Alzheimer's, Steven. Over a decade now.
I've been impressed with the lilac. I've been pondering helping some of our neighbors trim their lilacs back in exchange for the wood, but that sounds like real work, and few of them have lilacs as overgrown as ours was. One more big branch to come off it after it blossoms this spring, and then it should be mostly under control, but with branches too small for this sort of thing. Oh well.
Thanks again, Tony! The grinder gets used just about every time I turn on the lathe.
May you have the day you deserve!
Nice this classic style.
Very nice looking shaveing set, the spindle turning looks pretty good.
Thanks! The spindle turning on the stand shaft was fun. I didn’t have a plan, and was just winging it, seeing where the cracks in the lilac suggested I do things.
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Good looking handles and holder, Dave!!!
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Super nice Dave! I'm sorry to hear that your beard causes Alzheimer's though. 😉
Thanks, guys.
Kenny, correlation is not causation, but better safe than sorry? I was kinda in your neighborhood in mid-January. Ended up driving through far western Virginia because I-40 fell down in NC (Helene) and we were heading home with a rocking chair (from Elia Bizzarri in Hillsborough, NC) in the back of our new Grand Highlander (which I also got from Virginia, go figure). But there was a winter storm bearing down, so we beat feet to get out of the “mountains” to between Nashville and Memphis before the storm hit for reals. Turns out, I got to drive I-40 through downtown Nashville with 5 or 6 of my closest damnyankee friends who weren’t afraid of a half inch of snow on an otherwise empty interstate. Anyway, wish the weather had allowed time to stop and say howdy.
Kenny, correlation is not causation, but better safe than sorry? I was kinda in your neighborhood in mid-January. Ended up driving through far western Virginia because I-40 fell down in NC (Helene) and we were heading home with a rocking chair (from Elia Bizzarri in Hillsborough, NC) in the back of our new Grand Highlander (which I also got from Virginia, go figure). But there was a winter storm bearing down, so we beat feet to get out of the “mountains” to between Nashville and Memphis before the storm hit for reals. Turns out, I got to drive I-40 through downtown Nashville with 5 or 6 of my closest damnyankee friends who weren’t afraid of a half inch of snow on an otherwise empty interstate. Anyway, wish the weather had allowed time to stop and say howdy.
May you have the day you deserve!
Very pretty Dave. Love the wood choices.
Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.
Thanks, Andy! All sourced on our lot, which is kinda neat.
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Yeah Dave it's been a rough year for western NC. I was driving from Pittsburgh to Pigeon Forge TN when 70 went out of business. Luckily my exit was about 20 miles before it fell apart.
Yeah. Some pretty country there, but it sounds like they weren't very smart about where they put I-40 in western NC. I can imagine some engineer saying, "What's the worst that could happen?"
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To be fair, they weren’t likely considering hurricanes in the mountains of western NC. Bet they will next time!
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