Retrieved 26 November It can be used for carving and making wands. Search titles only. Hawthorn, is it any good? For example, a thorn from a hawthorn can be kept in one's pouch while fishing to guarantee a good catch. Bushcraft Friend.

Thread starter highlander Start date Jul 23, Not Amused Supporter. Bushcraft Friend. Due to some storm damage I have a decent sized hawthorn tree down in the yard. I have searched online for uses for the wood, but I can't seem to find anything about the wood.

I know the berries are used for medicinal purposes, and the tree was considered sacred to the Celtic? I am interested in what I may be able to use the wood Sanding Discs For Wood Turning Down for. I do know it checks pretty bad as it dries. NorthernOwl Tracker. Joined Apr 5, Messages Likes I know it is a very hard and dense wood. I have an axe handle I made from hawthorn. It would be good for tool handles or even a bow stave if it's straight enough. Allen, a Mather resident tutor, approached Hark after class and asked him if he would be interested in teaching a class at Harvard.

Since then, the program has seen the tenure of three University presidents. Hark currently teaches a beginner woodturning course on Friday afternoons, followed by courses for experienced turners on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.

The program is open to all Harvard affiliates. Smith began turning wood in high school by looking at Instagram posts and watching YouTube videos. Now, before the Friday night returner classes, Smith and Hark usually catch up over dinner together in Mather dining hall. Wasting no time, he retrieved a three-foot-tall chunk of wood from the wreckage before rushing to a meeting at the office. A few months later, when former University President Drew G.

Faust announced her resignation, the Office for Sustainability commissioned Smith to turn a bowl in her honor. Smith decided to use the wood from that tree. Despite the general lack of familiarity with woodturning, Smith notes its increasing popularity among those in his generation.

The opportunity to share the artform with younger generations and foster a greater appreciation for woodturning is what brings Hark down from Vermont every weekend. This is also why the hawthorn was sacred to Hymen or Hymenaeus, the Greek God of the marriage chamber. The walnut, which was sacred to Kar, was likewise sacred to Hymenaeus, as was Persephone's pomegranate. In one of Hymenaeus's myths which assumes him the son of Apollo, he was so lovely that he attracted the affection of Dionysios.

Zeus became so jealous that he killed the boy, but Dionysios resurrected him with a tonic made from grape ivy. Another tale assumes him the son of the mortal Magnes. The Erotes were even free to love one another, being not literally brothers but only a brotherhood. Hence no incest is implied by their erotic behavior toward one another. The vase painting at left shows two of the Erotes pulling Aphrodite's chariot. They are Hymenaeus with the lute he plays weddings, with Hemeros the god of Desire.

The parentage of Hemeros is unknown, but he is as old as Aphrodite, having been waiting for her along with the Kharites or Graces when She first stepped out of the sea onto Kypros. Evening marriage processions culminated in the darkened nuptial chamber. Such processions were lit by torches made of hawthorn branches so that it could be said that Hymenaeus himself led the procession toward the marriage bed.

Hymenaeus was typically portrayed as a winged effeminate youth carrying a lit brand made from a hawthorn branch, or a lute with which to sing wedding songs, or a basket of fruits symbolic of a fruitive union. Though occasionally associated Gluing Wood For Turning Down with the Graces in service of Aphrodite, there is no evidence that Hymenaeus or any Erote other than Eros who desparately loved Psyche was ever attracted to the opposite sex.

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