Dick Wilson
01-26-2012, 11:39 AM
John, I am posting a new thread rather than add to Roger's thread.
You mentioned in his thread that "sometimes you do not wear the face mask" Please wear it. I NEVER turn my lathe without having the face mask on!! Here is a great story to prove my point.
The piece is a hollowed to finish spaulted Sycamore form. 8" x 6". Zero problem turning it or hollowing. With my face mask ON I started sanding the outside at 450 RPM. Everything was normal until almost half the turning shattered my face shield. I was looking througH huge cracks and missing pieces of the mask. My whole face felt like someone had wacked me with the broad side of a canoe paddle. I staggered around for a minute with "what the hell happened?" running through my head. After I made sure I didn't need to go to the med center (I had already hit the emergency stop on my lathe) I started looking at the pieces. You see the leather stitching? The leather stitching is holding the piece hit me. I was using a chuck to hold the turning. When it blew up it pulled part of the tenon out of the chuck too:eek::eek:. The reason it blew up was the beautiful spault lines (now the crack with stitching) went all the way through and I am sure that the wood was so weak that it cut loose.
The end of the story is that I put Humpty Dumpty back together. I cut out a large hole at the top and now use it for my brochures at my tent sales. Always a reminder of what could have been......I would have spent some time in the hospital.
WEAR IT JOHN AND EVERYONE ELSE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!221359
You mentioned in his thread that "sometimes you do not wear the face mask" Please wear it. I NEVER turn my lathe without having the face mask on!! Here is a great story to prove my point.
The piece is a hollowed to finish spaulted Sycamore form. 8" x 6". Zero problem turning it or hollowing. With my face mask ON I started sanding the outside at 450 RPM. Everything was normal until almost half the turning shattered my face shield. I was looking througH huge cracks and missing pieces of the mask. My whole face felt like someone had wacked me with the broad side of a canoe paddle. I staggered around for a minute with "what the hell happened?" running through my head. After I made sure I didn't need to go to the med center (I had already hit the emergency stop on my lathe) I started looking at the pieces. You see the leather stitching? The leather stitching is holding the piece hit me. I was using a chuck to hold the turning. When it blew up it pulled part of the tenon out of the chuck too:eek::eek:. The reason it blew up was the beautiful spault lines (now the crack with stitching) went all the way through and I am sure that the wood was so weak that it cut loose.
The end of the story is that I put Humpty Dumpty back together. I cut out a large hole at the top and now use it for my brochures at my tent sales. Always a reminder of what could have been......I would have spent some time in the hospital.
WEAR IT JOHN AND EVERYONE ELSE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!221359