Karl Card
06-05-2010, 10:21 AM
I, behind my wifes back, won a performax 16/32 with in/out tables, boxes upon boxes of sanding media and an open base cabinet for 500 dollars. I was happy.
Then I went to the wood shop. I had a spalted, wormy maple half log that I thought would make a good bowl. Well it splattered in the last few moments. No biggie I placed another bowl blank upon the lathe. A 10 inch piece of red elm. I was going to make a square bowl... things were going good and then i I got a little thin on the backside and all 4 legs popped off.... no worries though it will just make a regular bowl, right?!
finished the back side and started on the front and my brand new 223 dollar set of tools that have not been used hardly at all, well, the gouge caught a piece of knotted up wood in the red elm and believe it or "knot" the gouge broke in half... I am standing there at the lathe with a handle in one hand and the other half in my left hand...thinking how could this happen....
I at this point think it is time for a coffee break... go upstairs have 46 oz of coffee and make a few emails and then go back down to "hell"....
I started to saw a piece of walnut in half with my bandsaw....all the sudden it quit cutting.. I think the blade must have snapped... nooooooooooo the carriage bolt or whatever you want to call it that the bottom wheel rides on with the pulley, broke in half... over a piece of 4 inch thick walnut...
and then besides that i also had a piece of mahogany blow up, but it had a right to under what I put it thru...
better days ahead....I just hope woodcraft can warrnt the broken tool.
Then I went to the wood shop. I had a spalted, wormy maple half log that I thought would make a good bowl. Well it splattered in the last few moments. No biggie I placed another bowl blank upon the lathe. A 10 inch piece of red elm. I was going to make a square bowl... things were going good and then i I got a little thin on the backside and all 4 legs popped off.... no worries though it will just make a regular bowl, right?!
finished the back side and started on the front and my brand new 223 dollar set of tools that have not been used hardly at all, well, the gouge caught a piece of knotted up wood in the red elm and believe it or "knot" the gouge broke in half... I am standing there at the lathe with a handle in one hand and the other half in my left hand...thinking how could this happen....
I at this point think it is time for a coffee break... go upstairs have 46 oz of coffee and make a few emails and then go back down to "hell"....
I started to saw a piece of walnut in half with my bandsaw....all the sudden it quit cutting.. I think the blade must have snapped... nooooooooooo the carriage bolt or whatever you want to call it that the bottom wheel rides on with the pulley, broke in half... over a piece of 4 inch thick walnut...
and then besides that i also had a piece of mahogany blow up, but it had a right to under what I put it thru...
better days ahead....I just hope woodcraft can warrnt the broken tool.