engelman

Today we cut engelman spruce for a floor for a friend.

walnut

This is the black walnut we cut behind the movie theater (thanks Cynde) we milled it Tuesday and it is amazingly beautiful, we hope to cut the rootb all tommorrow and make tables out of some of it.

festival

We had a great weekend at the art featival, the music was solid and we met lots of nice folks. For the inquiring mind who bought the richolite earrings, I still don't know how old the rock is but will find out. Tuesday we finished cutting the alder tree and Tim helped us move it with his tractor (we almost flipped it) and flatbed and Chris unloaded a section out of our truck with his fork lift. we plan to make tables out of the root ball and the trunk.

Finished a tamarisk bowl today. Tamarisk is an invasive species. this was cut on the mathesson preserve by Wild Landscapes in the course of restoration work, Thanks Kara.

pendants

Katy finished a new batch of pendants from alabaster, banded dolomite, richolite, pipestone, and a few other stones.

lamp

Katy finished the lamp from yesterday, here it is all lit up.

collecting

Today we went out to Onion Creek for some large black alabaster for a table base. Katy worked on pendants and earrings and I worked on a tamarisk bowl, and a couple of sculptures.

lamp

Katy is working on an alabaster and pear wood lamp. The light will shine through the white alabaster. The pear wood is from Mulberrry Grove (an old orchard here in Moab) and the alabaster is from Bicknell, Utah and the backside of the La Sals Mountains (Utah)-thanks Chris. We will try to post the finished lamp tommorrow. On a side note, we look like geeks, but have taken to wearing ski goggles instead of safety glasses. We're trend setters.

table

We finished a pear wood table with poplar base and pipestone infinity joint-that is the close up. The bottom pictures are of us blocking out the poplar this winter. We also finished a bunch of spoons for the Moab Arts Festival this weekend.

alder

Brady is taking apart a giant alder stump on 4oo North. We are slabbing it and intend to make a giant table out of the root ball.

Earrings

Here's a batch of earrings I have been working on for the Memorial Day Arts Festival here in Moab.

Black Walnut Tree

Today we salvaged this black walnut tree from a back yard here in Moab. It had been recently delimbed and killed. It has beautiful wood and we also dug up the root ball! The log itself is 7 feet long and 15"...the root ball is giant! We can't wait to cut into it...

Torrey, Utah

These are pics from our trip to Torrey...we cut dead engelman spruce, douglas fir and ponderosa pine...the beam is a 7"x7" fir post.

Skidding

Skidding some invasive species to mill...

Chinese Elm

Chinese elm trees dropped out of the Mulberry Grove development in Moab.

Brady

The master sawyer, Brady Curry, sharpening his saw.

Apple and Birch

This is an apple wood bowl and a paper birch rolling pin finished Sunday.