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”.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Another unsatisfied customer

The proud but unsatisfied recipient of the brabowlini. Note the cover is in her lap.

Wednesday, July 03, 2019

The problem with organic bowls

One of TWW's relatives reported seeing a sign beside the road on the way up to the family compound saying "organic firewood".  This awakened TWW to the obvious: He has been selling organic bowls for nothing rather than cashing in on the organic product scam.  

The problem with drying out wet organic wood instead of wood raised on corporate tree farms is organic wood contains blue bacteria so when they grow in the right conditions the wood turns blue. Wrapping up pine bowls in newspaper and drying them out like woodturners do sometimes provides just the right conditions. 

The question then is how to con the con-able consumer into thinking the blue bowls when finished (shown below in rough state) have more value than boring-looking factory tree farm pine bowls. Calling them organic should do the trick with all respects to PT Barnum.


These bowls were dried for a month in paper bags but were too full of sap so the conditions were great for the bacteris.

Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Bowl blues


TWW cut down the pine tree later than he wanted to due to too much snow. That meant the tree had lots of sap so when he wrapped the bowls up to dry they were ripe for lots of blue bacteria to grow. Only the future knows what the results will be. Maybe they could be pawned off as camouflaged bowls.

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