The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Another freeloading success story?


The secret  to successful freeloading is to get people to willingly donate something to help your cause.  You can get them to donate more if they are ignorant of the true value of what they give you. Here are some future cherry bowls. The anonymous donor of this precious raw material thought he only had a  dead tree knocked down by the wind so was glad to get rid of it. The drawback to this approach is the people who donate to your cause know the true value of what they donate and they are correct and you get a lemon. He donated a second tree that was dead and it may not work to make bowls with since it is spalted inside. Win some lose some. 
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Anonymous said...

what kind of cherry is that wood. it looks more like popple to me. i got some cherry and its gnarly and crooked and slow growig. maybe, just maybe, this old goat may learn something here. he' gone to look at his cherry trees. steady eddie

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