And I will be cutting more through the fall and up to the show dates.
I will be working on some SOLID nicely spalted CURLY quilted Sugar Maple, some straight grained Honey Locust, Cherry, and a second load of fresh Cherry Burl.

    Please email George Guadiane or call (518) 392-7769 and I will be happy to help you with whatever questions you might have, including availability of sizes and quantity.
    If you have any special woods or dimensions for blanks you would like, let me know.  I will let you know when I might have it for you.

ALSO, if you have any trees or burls, local to me, PLEASE let me know, I will always want more quality turning wood.
   
    Almost all of the wood I have thus far, has come by recovery, from land clearings and lumbering operations in my area.  I do rarely cut trees down to obtain turning wood.  Occasionally, I will buy a log that would have been cut anyway, but almost all of what I offer would have ended up in a fireplace, or rotted on the ground, if I had not claimed it.

    I started turning wood in November of 2003.  I purchased a couple of blanks on eBay, and picked up a few pieces of wood from the roadside.
    I couldn't afford the pieces that I really wanted from the internet, and didn't really like the pieces I was finding on the roadside.  After a few months of hard searching, I found some good and steady sources of supply.  I bought a big band saw, a couple of chainsaws and I started cutting blanks.

At that point, I was still thinking I was just doing this for my own turning.

    Before long, it became clear that I could never turn all of the blanks cut from the wood I had collected. And there was still LOTS MORE WOOD waiting for me.  So I decided to sell some of the bowl and vase blanks. 
Because the "scrap" wood that remained was too nice to burn, I cut those smaller pieces into pen and bottle stopper blanks.

    Since I wasn't turning smaller things, I decided to sell those pieces as well.

    I work with a guy who has a Wood Mizer Saw Mill.  He cuts my logs into planks/beams and I chainsaw them into manageable pieces that I then cut into turning squares and rounds.  I custom cut any material I get.

I still process almost every piece as if I intended to turn it myself