Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Sometimes we don’t have skills so much,,,,
A beautifully figured maple bowl gone bad.


Maybe I can keep going and make a wooden colander, hehe.
Ahh well, only takes one bad catch when the walls get thin to turn a piece, into a piece of firewood.
Cheers men. It’s not about failing, it’s about learning.

Stress crack from getting too thin or tool chatter?

Blast some more holes in it with a shotgun and make it a piece of sculpture!

The marks seem to follow the cross grain parts. Soft/hard/ soft/hard.

If we all posted our failures this would be a very long thread.

Was using the side of a spindle gouge as a scraper, or tried to.
Grabbed into the end grain and that was it..
Should have stuck with the carbide scraper and sanded the tear out away but trying to get better with the cutters has a risk to it. Hehe

Man Mike, that sucks. Always happens to me when I’m at the 1 yard line. I have a pile of brush handles like that. What I’ve learned from it is always ride the bevel and have extra blanks for back up.

Had to tear into the wall and fix some cracked plumbing Boxing Day as well.



Seems the T broke off on the upper leg, where it brushed down to 1 1/4” for the stack breather line.
Of course it wasn’t air that was leaking down into the shop Christmas night, it was gooey stuffing slurry coming Out of that crack thanks to a clogged garbarator. .
All over my resin work bench and epoxy tools.. argh the stench.
Fixed up now though and forcing me to clean.
At least it didn’t get on any power equipment!

I can empathize with you, Had similar frustrations happen in two different houses.
Heck of a way to spend the time!!
May your New Year be more pleasant!
~Richard

Gave up on graburators years ago after I discovered that you can’t put a lot of fibrous stuff - like banana skins - into them without clogging the pipes. Too many bad memories of taking apart drain pipes in the early morning - yuk!

I also discovered the joys of composting and I moved to a township that introduced organic collection on garbage day.

I used to have to maintain one in a morgue.