Gary Herrmann
12-28-2006, 8:49 PM
Well one, anyway.
While scooping out the interior of the bowl I was working on, I apparently passed the point where someone with my meager skills should have switched over to a scraper. Or maybe I presented the wrong angle or tried to remove to much wood. Or something equally ignorant.
There was a catch.
Apparently, sufficient torque was generated to snap the tenon. The bowl skittered across my lathe stand like an angry crab. I ran into a few in my delinquent youth while growing up in Florida. It ain't pretty.
Bad words were used. Shorts were checked. Sensing a disturbance in the Force, my Darling Bride poked her head into my cave and asked if everything was alright. Perhaps the Force was disturbed by my choice of adjectives and nouns. Either that, or the bowl as it achieved escape velocity.
I've glued the tenon back together. If I finish the bottom and part it off, the glue joint will also be gone. I know glue joints are stronger than the surrounding wood, provided there are good long grain mating surfaces.
I think I'll let the glue cure for a day. Perhaps the bowl will have calmed down by then as well. If I get any shop time tomorrow, I think I'll turn a pen...
Here's a question: Have any of you more experienced folks ever glued a tenon together and successfully completed the bowl?
I think its time for a beverage.
While scooping out the interior of the bowl I was working on, I apparently passed the point where someone with my meager skills should have switched over to a scraper. Or maybe I presented the wrong angle or tried to remove to much wood. Or something equally ignorant.
There was a catch.
Apparently, sufficient torque was generated to snap the tenon. The bowl skittered across my lathe stand like an angry crab. I ran into a few in my delinquent youth while growing up in Florida. It ain't pretty.
Bad words were used. Shorts were checked. Sensing a disturbance in the Force, my Darling Bride poked her head into my cave and asked if everything was alright. Perhaps the Force was disturbed by my choice of adjectives and nouns. Either that, or the bowl as it achieved escape velocity.
I've glued the tenon back together. If I finish the bottom and part it off, the glue joint will also be gone. I know glue joints are stronger than the surrounding wood, provided there are good long grain mating surfaces.
I think I'll let the glue cure for a day. Perhaps the bowl will have calmed down by then as well. If I get any shop time tomorrow, I think I'll turn a pen...
Here's a question: Have any of you more experienced folks ever glued a tenon together and successfully completed the bowl?
I think its time for a beverage.