How'd Ya Git Yer Username

[beetle]

Well it has been with me since I was a kid, do ya all remember the army guy cartoon. Been called Beetle Bailey ever since I can remember.

[Part_Timer]

I would like to saw full time but need the medical insurance for our son so for now I must be "part_ timer"

[Doc]

My friends used to watch me perform surgery on every vehicle that came into my possession in need of repair. Some of them even watched me perform surgery on myself a few times putting stitches in various places.

I think I am almost ready to try to do my own frontal labotomy!

Doc

[woodchopper]

When I joined I just picked up my old CB Handle  "Woodchopper"
My wife had tagged me with it back in the 70's when I was running My cabinet shop.... 

[submarinesailor]

Rode, taught and worked submarines for the better part of  20 years in the US Navy. Got 120 months of under water time – "OpSub" time as the Navy calls it. smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy  That's why my wife (of 32 years) and friends think I'm a little strange. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

DR_BUCK, what did you do in the Navy.  Also my LT15 isn't too far from your's.  I'm just two counties over, in Madison County.  Just up river from Graves Mountain Lodge.

[karl]

Not much imagination here:
My Dad was Karl
I'll never be the man he was,
so I'm karl

[babylogger]

well i think mine is self explanatory lol but my mom also calls me dee! ;D

[UNCLEBUCK]

About 8 years ago my little nephew watched the movie unclebuck with his little buddies and I guess I fit the bill . Everyone seemed to identify me with the movie character and everyone knows me even in town as U.B. , I tried to clean up my act after being labeled but I give up and have come to like it . 10 years truckin west coast and never got into the c.b. handle thing but a little nephew has dubbed me for life !   :-\

[pappy]

Was once known as termite here but since my granddaughters started calling me pappy I thought why not  ;D

Faith when she started walking a couple weeks ago



Kate was over for the day and just got a kiss from BW



now known as "pappy"

[Patty]

Those grandkids are sure cute, Pappy. Give 'em a hug for me!  ;)

[North Wind]

Had a custom saddle and leather shop in Montana with some things made outa wood when the saddle work was slow.The name of my shop was North Wind Trading Post.Came to Ohio to be with grandson for a while,waiting for the wind to blow me back. :-\

[Ernie]

Neat grand children Pappy.  Very patient dog too.

Ernie

[Bro. Noble]

Man those pictures make me jealous :-\

Wish I had an excuse to change my name to 'Bro. Pappy' :D :D :D

[badpenny]

Been badpenny since my truck driving days. Used to haul aluminum from Franklin KY once in a while, always seemed to meet the same driver there. One day, he said I was like a bad penny, always showing up when least expected, and it stuck.

[jimbo]

     moma gave me mine so it stuck  so now im useing it

                                                    jimbo 8)

[sawguy21]

I have been involved with saws for longer than I care to admit. I kept changing numbers until I found one that had not been used and I could remember (not many of those). ;D

[woodbowl]

I got my username from making primitive style, oblong shaped wooden dough bowls. I've been making them for over 20 years now. Never made a round one though. This is the traditional style here in the deep south. People talk about their grannys old bowl and what ever happened to it. So and so's got it and they wouldn't part with it for nothin'. After hearing that story over and over, I figured they would like to have one even if it wasn't granny's old bowl. I've made about 700 or so now. I've sold them all over the country and given away no telling how many. What's really nice is to finish up a sawing job for a customer and give them a bowl made from a slab off one of their logs.-----An old man told me one time, if you give a fellow a little more than they barganed for, you'll always come out ahead. Now, that stuck like biscuit dough!

[asy]

Hiya Woodbowl!

What is a 'dough bowl' used for?

The one in your picture looks lovely, and I love wooden bowls...  But doesn't "look" deep enough to mix dough in.

Could you show us some more photos of your work?

asy :D

[woodbowl]

Asy,
    Back in the wagon days, metal pots and pans were a luxury and dead weight on the wagon if you had to go very far. Every culture had it's own style, but the southeast seemed to like the oval shape. Back then people made biscuits about 3 times a day. That sounds like a lot of biscuits and it is, but sometimes if you didn't get a biscuit, you didn't get nothin'. Times were hard and the very shape of the bowl lends itself to that type of hardship. Because the bowl was used several times a day, flour stayed in the bowl all the time. Mama would doodle a hole in the flour, pour in a little lard and water then pattie out the biscuits to put in the bake pan. When the flour got a little lumpy from several days of biscuit making, they didn't just throw it out, they would move it to one side of the bowl and sift it through a hand crank sifter to the other side. That's where the oval shape comes it handy. All the lumps went flyin' out the back door for the chickens unless a yungen' got there first for a crunchy munchy. Since there were no refrigerators, a rag was laid across the top to keep the roaches out and then placed in the safe untill the next meal.------ Most people want them now because they look nice as a center piece and make good gifts. It hard to find something different nowdays that folks don't already have or need. Times sure are different now. I don't know of anyone that makes  biscuits in a wood bowl unless it is demonstrated at a pioneer settlement. The attitude nowdays seems to be   "I thought biscuits came out of a can !"

[Bro. Noble]

Grandma had a bowl that looked just like that.  She kept it full of pecans.  I don't know whatever became of that bowl,  but I know where most of the pecans went ;D

[etat]

Woodbowl, that's exactly like my Mama Tate used to make biscuits.  With the flour and the hole and the lard and sifting the flour and storing the pan and covering with a cloth and everything.  They bought flour in big sacks and it always had a washcloth or small towel sewed to the top of the sack. I and my wife tried many many times to duplicate the recipe and the process without success.  The closest we ever come to good biscuits and the way we are making biscuits now are with the recipe Bibbyman posted awhile back.   

[asy]

Wowwee Woodbowl!

Thanks heaps for the info, how FASCINATING!

Now, a techie question...  :D

How do you make them?

I haven't got to faceplate turning, got as far as spindle turning then got too busy at work...  But... I can't see how you can turn an oval...

Please enlighten me!

By the way, do you have a website? And, do you ship to Aussieland?

asy :D

[woodbowl]

Asy, the pioneers used regular hand tools such as chisels, ax, foot adz, draw knife ect. He shaped it from the swell of a Tupelo Gum "in our region". Shore nuff bowl makers had their own tools. One in particular, was called a scorp. It was used to dish out the inside. Foot operated laths could turn an oval shape by mounting the wood blocks on a spindal. Just imagine turning a wooden football shape that separated into two halves. That was high cotton back then. As for me, I must admit I use electricity. Wonderful tool, that there hand grinder!--------- I don't have a website. Not yet any way, but I think I could figure out a way to ship down under.

[tnlogger]

 hey woodbowl you would't happen to be from midtenn area would  ???
if you can update your profile and plant a tree on the members map.
if ya likes them GRITS then i  knowd ya a hillbilly  :D :D :D :D :D ;D

[Tome]

My name is Tom and that name is always taken so I attached my middle initial to my first name, Tome.  I am going to sell hardwood lumber some day and I think my business will be called, Tome's Hardwood Lumber.