What WAS new last month? ........April 2010 .........  What happened next?
 
1 Tree, 100 Bowls. In March of 2010, Mark, his brother Ed and nephew Joe felled a storm damaged pine tree that was unstable and too close to Ed's house in Hickory, Maryland. They brought the pieces to Mark's Baltimore City shop with a plan to use the wood for turning bowls. Some of the bowls Mark plans to turn himself and some will be turned by Mark's students.

Expecting that there is enough wood for 100 bowls, we decided to document each bowl as it is turned. The first 5 bowls of the 1 Tree, 100 Bowls project were turned by the 5 beginning bowl turning students in the April Bowl turning workshop. Bowl students in the Spring & Summer Workshops will have an opportunity to be part of this project. Follow our blog.

Custom Finials. These giant acorns were turned for a historic restoration project in Hyattsville, MD. See more our our architectural millwork in our Architectural Gallery

Tap handles head towards Pittsburgh. We were happy to make the beer taps for the first distribution of Rivertowne Brewing Co's beer and for their neighbors, Full Pint Brewing Company, both new in the Pittsburgh area. Good luck to both of these new microbreweries. See some of our newer tap handles in the Beer Tap Gallery

Sheep & Wool Festival. Mark, Nancy, Danielle, Joe, John and our friend, Nancy Newman had a great time staffing our booth this year at the 2010 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. We met hundreds of fiber artists, demonstrated turning fiber arts tools and drop spindling. We've posted more photos on our Ravelry group site (Mark Supik Woodturning Workshops). Ravelry