[NAFEX] Beating walnut trees
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Fri Dec 8 09:43:01 EST 2006
At 09:21 PM 12/7/2006, Donna wrote:
>Lucky didn't get the poem quite right, at least not the traditional version
>from Europe. It's donkeys, wives, and walnut trees that are said to improve
>from beating. I don't know much about donkeys, will pass on that part. I
>suspect you can get women to work harder by beating them, but it probably
>makes them a lot less fun to have around.
And, like the donkeys, it would probably make a wife more likely to
kill you. Either right then, or at some later date, when you weren't
expecting it! LOL
Seems like I recall an article, some years back, in either POMONA or
the NNGA Nutshell, about someone who regularly mauled trees - really
beat them up badly, for the purpose of producing wounded tissue that
resulted in interestingly-figured patterns in the wood, which they
then used for intricate wood inlays or turning bowls, etc. Of
course, this would probably have to be an ongoing project, with
harvest and curing a number of years(or even decades) down the road.
Lucky
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