A surprise from Jeff Nicol along with a first for me

[Kathy Marshall]

I think I need to turn something for my mail carrier. My mailbox is down the street on the corner, but when I have a box coming she drives down the street to leave it on my porch. Well Saturday, she made the drive again and dropped off a box of goodies from Jeff Nicol!

Lots of cool stuff in there (minus the piece I started turning today). Thanks Jeff!
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The piece I started turning was a nice little block of spalted hard maple. I was going for a vase shape and everything was going fine, when Blam! a bad catch! This was the 1st time I've blown a piece up, but I guess it happens to all of us sooner or later.

I was using the new carbide cutter I just got from Lyle Jamieson trying to get a fairly smooth surface inside and apparently I was a little off on the angle.

Searched for the pieces in the shavings and could only find 2 of them, so I've turned off the neck and did a little tweaking on the shape, now just have to see how the rest of it goes.
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.

[John Keeton]

Kathy, sorry about the catch - but, it is good to get the first one out of the way. Kind of like the first scratch on a new car! There will be others, but they wont' "hurt" as badly.

That Jeff is a super guy. I just received a tool rest he made for me - accompanied by several chunks of wood.

[James Combs]

Its always a sad thing when it happens but happens it does. Just posted last week about one I blew up but at least yours is somewhat sasalvageable, not so with mine. Sure is some nice looking wood and I can kind of see what the trimmed back version might look like. I think it will still look great, just watch out that there are no more...I wont sat the word.

[Steve Campbell]

Great recovery Kathy. I've only met Jeff one time be he treated me like an old friend. Nice guy. Looks like some interesting chunks there.

Steve

[Bill Wyko]

Sorry to see that. I hope you were wearing your face shield. Looks like there's enough of it left to salvage it into a nice, deep vessel. be careful with the rest of it though, we don't want any injury posts from you.

[David DeCristoforo]

Oops! I hate it when that happens. That is a piece of wood worth saving though...

[Allan Ferguson]

That is a bummer. An interesting piece of wood and looking forward to seeing the final result.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Congrats on all the wood Kathy! It will definitely give you something different to turn for a bit! To bad about the vase but when dealing with spalted wood, there are many weak spots! Glad you were not injured! Looking forward to seeing the finished version of the vase!

[David E Keller]

Congrats on getting the goodies, and condolences on the misshap... Been there, done that, already making plans to go back again!

[Jeff Fagen]

Thats a really nice care package.I stopped in to see Jeff on Saturday and I saw the goodies you sent to him recently.We filled up two hours just talking woodturning and he sent me home with some nice woods.:)That spalted wood for me is a love hate relationship.

[charlie knighton]

glad only pride and wood were broken, keep them coming, i find i learn something from each mishap

[Baxter Smith]

Congrats on the wood. Its about time you got that "first" over with and out of the way. Hope it takes a while for number two to come along!

[Cheryl A. Prince]

What a great variety of wood to play with! The first time I used a carbide cutter I blew up my piece:eek:! I'm a little shy with that cutter now. I actually need to "get back on the horse" and try it out again. Have fun turning all of that wood!