Steve Busey
07-05-2012, 7:35 PM
I always seem to get projects started, but have trouble finding time to complete them; or I botch them up so badly they get tossed in a 5 gal bucket in a corner of the shop. So today, I finished up a few pens and was looking for something else to do, when my eye spotted "the bucket". On the top was a zebrawood bowl I blew up good. Got a real big catch trying to navigate the inside transition and it went flying in three pieces. One piece was deep in a corner that I could not reach, behind logs, saws, jigs and spiders. With no hope of finishing the bowl, I bandsawed the biggest bowl piece to gauge thickness (very uniform!). Into the bucket it went.
(Flashback: But when I bought my Jet, I had to clean out that corner so I could open the door wide enough to get the lathe pieces in. During that cleaning, I found the missing piece of zebrawood. Into the bucket it went.)
Anyway, something told me to pick up the pieces and see what was what. Hmm. So I glued them all together, with a strip of veneer in the bandsaw kerf, jam-chucked it onto the lathe and cleaned it up, threw some WTF on it and buffed it out. Nice looking workbench bowl! I was happy to "salvage" (be that as it may) that nice piece of wood.
1) Best side of the bowl, except the foot that shattered flying across the room.
2) Some of the glue seams and the BFC (big catch) hole in the side - no idea where that piece went.
3) Inside view with the veneer seam & glue seams.
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(Flashback: But when I bought my Jet, I had to clean out that corner so I could open the door wide enough to get the lathe pieces in. During that cleaning, I found the missing piece of zebrawood. Into the bucket it went.)
Anyway, something told me to pick up the pieces and see what was what. Hmm. So I glued them all together, with a strip of veneer in the bandsaw kerf, jam-chucked it onto the lathe and cleaned it up, threw some WTF on it and buffed it out. Nice looking workbench bowl! I was happy to "salvage" (be that as it may) that nice piece of wood.
1) Best side of the bowl, except the foot that shattered flying across the room.
2) Some of the glue seams and the BFC (big catch) hole in the side - no idea where that piece went.
3) Inside view with the veneer seam & glue seams.
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