Tom Hamilton
08-29-2010, 4:17 PM
Greetings fellow turners and mistake fixers:
So, I'm merrily turning the tenon off a piece of mesquite that I got from "somewhere in Texas"
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and just as I was thinking "I better check the thickness" the bottom fell out...literally.
Obviously unhappy I surveyed the damage and decided the fairly even 2 inch void might accept a plug. I had a piece of the mesquite left over from when I cut the blank. The scrap was curved on one side and formed a right angle on the other. Well, I wonder if I can get a flat piece out of that to make the plug.
The band-saw produced a flat piece and I turned it round, testing the fit regularly. Digital dividers said I was almost there so I eased apiece of sand paper against the edge and oops, too much. The darn plug is loose.
Rats, by now I'm in so deep why quit. I enlarged the hole just a little and filled the ring with crushed turquoise.
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At this point, of course, it was always my plan to have a turquoise ring in the bottom of Robert's mesquite blank!
So, as Winston Churchill said, "never give up!"
Best regards, Tom, in Douglasville, headed back to the shop to make more lemonade.
So, I'm merrily turning the tenon off a piece of mesquite that I got from "somewhere in Texas"
159817
and just as I was thinking "I better check the thickness" the bottom fell out...literally.
Obviously unhappy I surveyed the damage and decided the fairly even 2 inch void might accept a plug. I had a piece of the mesquite left over from when I cut the blank. The scrap was curved on one side and formed a right angle on the other. Well, I wonder if I can get a flat piece out of that to make the plug.
The band-saw produced a flat piece and I turned it round, testing the fit regularly. Digital dividers said I was almost there so I eased apiece of sand paper against the edge and oops, too much. The darn plug is loose.
Rats, by now I'm in so deep why quit. I enlarged the hole just a little and filled the ring with crushed turquoise.
159818
At this point, of course, it was always my plan to have a turquoise ring in the bottom of Robert's mesquite blank!
So, as Winston Churchill said, "never give up!"
Best regards, Tom, in Douglasville, headed back to the shop to make more lemonade.