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How a Tree Became a Whale

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There was a wooden plank that sat at the edge of the bay in along the water where i visited. I loved the way that it looked, and I just wanted to save it from the elements. The water was damaging it slowly and so was the weather, so I finally go it moved, even though it wasn’t easy, and was able to nurture it until it took the shape of a whale. Not exactly like a whale, but roughly the same shape, and it has purpose, it gets used as a table.

Key Takeaways:

  • In a small Alaskan village, I found a wide, graceful piece of wood that I always coveted.
  • Inspired by George Nakashima, I worked the wood as a way of finding the tree’s soul.
  • The plank has become a table with folding legs, shaped like a whale.

“The tree had been bent, probably by a heavy snow load, and the inside curve of the wood was rippled, framing complex figuring that resulted from the stress of that deformation.”

Read more: https://www.popularwoodworking.com/end-grain/tree-became-whale/

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As Staff Writer I am or we are the writers bringing inspiring and uplifting news of the Woodworking World to those of us seeking a way to disconnect from all virtual realities and rediscover ourselves through aligning our brains with our hands! It is a curing way to use wood to rediscover the real world. And of course, we make something that actually exist in the real world!
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