Salvaging blown bowls

[fran tarkenton]

Does anyone else enjoy salvaging bowls that come apart on the lathe? Sometime I lose a nice piece of wood due to my own incompetence or some defect in the wood and I don't want to let it go in the scrap heap... I end up grafting all kinds of scraps onto the host. I call them "frankenbowls"
I welcome comments on these efforts.
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[Jay Jolliffe]

They look great. The ones that have turned into flying saucers of mine shattered..Couldn't save them....Went into the wood stove..

[daryl moses]

Great idea! They look nice and anyone that doesn't know better would think you did it on purpose.
Unfortunately I don't have your patience and toss my mistakes, may give it a try the next time though.

[Roger Chandler]

Pretty nice save! I just have to ask.....you got any connections to the Minnesota Vikings? ;)

[fran tarkenton]

you got any connections to the Minnesota Vikings? ;)

Sadly no... Just a mad Viking fan since 1969. Fran T was my hero growing up.

[Aaron Craven]

Excellent work. I especially like the first one.

I've not had one come apart yet (knock on wood, no pun intended), but I did have a piece of hickory that the tenon snapped on... I'd had a lot of trouble with it already (an embedded stone, some catches, etc), so I took it as a sign... the blank just didn't want to be a bowl. It came to a very bright fiery end in the wood stove.