Milling MonkeyPod

Recently, the monks have been milling logs of monkeypod wood. The logs were gifted to the monastery by local tree trimmers. Monkeypod has long been prized as a quality carving wood and Nirvani Nilakanthanatha in particular, has recently been using it for turning beautiful wooden bowls.

Nivani sits with the recently cut log

a fantastic piece

Nirvani uses the sawmill to cut one of the smaller pieces

These are some of the bowls he\

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Here is one of the finished ones, complete with a lid

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