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Well I never did make it back into the shop today to continue working on my latest piece. I spent 6 plus hours in the kitchen, cooking of course. I had my weekend meals planned out which would have included wild Turkey breast tomorrow but when your friend drops by with a couple of fresh G'Bay Steelies, you reschedule some meal plans. However when you have meat and produce that needs to be dealt with, immediately, you deal with it. So my old school Tuna Casserole was made for future meals this coming week, a small Pork Loin was cooked and stored for future use and one Trout will be tonight's Fajita dinner, with home made slaw and the last of my my big ass Heirloom Beefsteak tomato salsa. The other Trout was filleted (custom fillet knife made by Aplumma ), boned, skinned and vacuum sealed for my daughter. The wild Turkey breast will have to wait. Happy Thanksgiving Folks.

Started on this piece this morning for a long time customer/friend. It's a rare piece of stabilized Douglas Fir that had been hit by lightening. I'v made much progress on it thus far but it is proving to be a piece that will require much TLC if I'm to get it to completion.

Just a suggestion...........slice it into about 1/4 inch pieces with the grain, so you have long strips. Marinade them in a teriyaki marinade for overnight in the fridge, and BBQ them on high for about 2 minutes per side. My favourite way to eat wild turkey breasts.... Doug

That blank has amazing character Chris. Don't think I have known you to give up on a piece so you will get there. Absolutely love it and can imagine how it will look!

Great photos Barry! Very Happy Thanksgiving to you both. As we are all bragging lol., we celebrated our 50th this year. Hoping for many more. Seems like when I joined up here 20 odd years ago we were all young whippersnappers!

Best of luck for your wife Barry and fingers crossed for a speedy recovery. Always nice when you find the right woman to spend a lifetime with. This Tuesday (Oct 15) Diane & I will celebrate our 58th wedding anniversary.

That must have been very discouraging at the beginning, but you obviously got beyond the bad and into the good. It looks awesome. Patience and perseverance in some cases pays off.

So I went back at it this piece post dinner to make a little progress and I'm at a stall now until morning. Break outs are a problem along the burn lines slowing me down as seen here in the first two pictures. This piece will be the recessed hidden front reel seat hood in my seamless fore grip design, hopefully!