Disaster and remedy

[Jim Maxwell]

I have been experimenting with curved joints in laminating rather than straight joints. After three weeks work I had completed the top of a new laminated bowl, ready for the lathe. Mounted securely and started to turn the edge true when there was a simple "crack" and the job dissentigrated in a flash.
(photo 1)
I found six of the eight segments and gave up in disgust. Three weeks latter the missing two pieces came to light and the bowl was repaired and completed. I am reasonably happy with the result. The bowl or hollow form is 310mm diameter and 120mm high.
(photo 2)
Jim

[Jeff Nicol]

Jim, It looked pretty bad in the first picture! But you must have had the patience of a saint to get in back together and finished! Nice looking piece, I hope to gain the patience to do a segmented piece before I die!

Jeff

[Steve Schlumpf]

Wow - what a beautiful design! Glad you were able to save the piece - well worth the effort!

Any chance you can include a photo showing the profile?

Very nice work Jim! Very nice!

[Jim Maxwell]

Thanks Steve. I am reasonably happy with the outcome. Here is a profile photo.
Jim

[Thom Sturgill]

That shows the promise of what segmented work can be. You have reason to be more than just 'reasonably happy with the outcome'.

[John Keeton]

Wow! What a recovered effort! Great looking piece not even considering the original disaster, but given the pile of parts you ended up with initially, you worked wonders with this.

Beautiful design work, and overall just a really nice piece!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Thanks for the profile Jim - it's a beauty!!!

[Mike Golka]

Great save Jim! and a beautiful piece as well. Are the curved parts done with a router and jig?

[Mark Burge]

Okay, I'm really sure that my small disaster will not come out looking like this. Great save. I think you should be quite proud of the result. It's a beauty.

[Paul Douglass]

Someday when I grow up I want to be a "segmentor". I am in awe of anyone that can figure it all out. Beautiful piece. Just plain beautiful!

[Bill Bolen]

Stunning piece! All your hard effort sure paid off...Bill...

[David DeCristoforo]

That's a beautiful design. Normally I'm not a big fan of segmented work but this is "above the fold". An impressive save too. That's the sign of a true craftsman... not to never have a disaster but to be able to recover from one. You did this very deftly.

[Frank Van Atta]

A truly beautiful piece in all respects.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Simply spectacular!

[Michelle Rich]

The disaster makes this bowl all the more beautiful. This is one splendid segmented vessel.

[Paul Atkins]

Looks great, and nice curves. I'd be worried about glue failure since it looks like that's what happened originally. What type of glue are you using?

[Matt Owen]

Jim, I can't believe you're just "reasonably happy" with this piece. I think it's gorgeous! If you want, you can send it to me and I will be "extremely happy" with this piece.:D

[James Combs]

That's a beautiful design. Normally I'm not a big fan of segmented work but this is "above the fold". An impressive save too. That's the sign of a true craftsman... not to never have a disaster but to be able to recover from one. You did this very deftly.


Ditto David's comments. A simply amazing looking HF despite the gremlins' best efforts.

[Mark Hubl]

Wow, nice save. Great looking piece, love the curves.

[Roland Martin]

It's good to back away from a disaster for a bit and regroup, and regroup you did. That is a fantastic design and some very clever work. Definitely glad you decided to give it another go!

[Ryan Baker]

Great piece! Did you figure out what caused the glue failure?

[Jim Maxwell]

Thanks for the nice comments. The original failure, I attributed to satle glue. Well thats my opinion. The glue was a Selleys product similar to your titebond 2. It is a polyaliphatuc, cross linked product. I have returned it to Selleys for appraisal, buut as yet have not had a reply. Interestingly, the bottle had no use by date of batch number. Will be fascinating to see what they have to say.
Jim

[brian watts]

very very nice..

[Dwight McNutt]

pretty amazing what can be done by a skilled craftsman, well done and very pretty.

[Greg Ketell]

I'm really really happy you found all the pieces and finished your HF. That is absolutely stellar!! Thanks for sharing, now I have something else to try to figure out how to do (someday).

GK

[Allen Neighbors]

Outstanding!!! Perfect save!!