{"id":212,"date":"2015-01-22T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2015-03-08T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:17:31","slug":"weed-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Weed Pots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-008-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-008-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the first three I turned on my lathe in, from l. to r., black walnut, American black cherry, and white oak.\u00a0 They stand about 5.5&#8243; tall.\u00a0 In addition to being drilled out at the top to hold dried flowers, branches, ornamental grass, or interesting weeds, the bottoms also have a cavity drilled out which is filled with steel shot and then sealed with a wood plug.\u00a0 The bottom-weighting provides stability.\u00a0 (Click on any image to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p>Since the first three were made, I have experimented with other shapes and heights, as well as with some exotic woods.\u00a0 Below, l. to r., Claro walnut and Wenge, straight off the lathe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-260 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-002-1024x863.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"474\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-002-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Weed-pots-002-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also ordered various sizes of glass test tubes to be inserted into properly sized holes in the tops so that in addition to holding dried arrangements,\u00a0 a single rose or small flower grouping can be kept fresh in water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the first three I turned on my lathe in, from l. to r., black walnut, American black cherry, and white oak.\u00a0 They stand about 5.5&#8243; tall.\u00a0 In addition to being drilled out at the top to hold dried flowers, branches, ornamental grass, or interesting weeds, the bottoms also have a cavity drilled out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weed Pots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14,37,39,44,40,36],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodwork","tag-american-cherry","tag-black-walnut","tag-hand-turned","tag-wenge","tag-white-oak","tag-wood-lathe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}