Walnut Platter - Oops!!

[John Hart]

This piece is from a walnut board I saved from the fire the other day. It was a 4/4 board but showed some promise for some figure. Before I made my finishing cut, I took a deep breath...put some wood on the fire, drank some Dr. Pepper, sharpened my scraper, took another deep breath....and moving ever so carefully and smoothly, made my last pass across the face. Slipped on the toolrest....WHAM!! Put a gouge in the face and it broke off the glue block and flew off the lathe bench. Man!!!! I was mad!! Picked it up, then threw it down in the shavings...cooled off a bit, then sanded it in the shavings with the power sander up to 1200. Had to create the foot recess with the sander too. Sheesh! Finished with some Behlen's stuff.
9" diameter....little less than an inch high. About 1/8" or less thick. Thanks for peekin' :)

Top View
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Bottom View
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Side View (sorry about the focus)
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Catch View
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[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful work John! Love the wood - glad you were able to save it! Really nice work!

[Gary Herrmann]

Looks like a good save to me. You're right. Nice figure in there.

[Ed Scolforo]

John, I'll forgive that little catch, because that wood is
AWESOME!!!

[Bob Noles]

John,

Looks better than any non-opps palter I have turned :p

Nice wood.... Nice save!

[Keith Burns]

Great save John, well worth the effort !!!!!:) :)

[Dick Parr]

That is a great looking piece of wood John and a nice job with, great save......;)

[George Tokarev]

WOW! Nice wood. Have you tried using a flat gouge or an Irish grind cylindrical semi-sideways versus a scraper? I hate the damn things. Always on the edge of disaster. I feel I have better control with the gouge, because it's only in contact over a narrow area. This is some old fat guy making the same type of cut in the opposite direction, but you can see that control is good even over a very uneven surface. http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/GoodOnesGone/?action=view&current=TrueBottom.flv With a lower bevel gouge you can make shavings you can see through.

[Dennis Hatchett]

Very nice save!

[Curt Fuller]

Sometimes it takes extraordinary measures to save an extraordinary piece of wood, first from the Amish fire pile and then from the Hart fiery temper. Nice saves John and a nice platter too.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Nice save John! Gorgeous piece of wood!

[Christopher Hunter]

Beautiful save John,
Can't wait to see some more "fire wood"
--Chris

[Jim Becker]

So....just power sand the divot smooth and call it a special feature...or don't talk about it... ;)

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great save John. Wood definately looks good. I really like the figure in it. Nice job.

[John Hart]

Thanks everyone. I feel better now. I have another piece of this that was part of the same board. Not as much figure, but still pretty cool. I'll give it another try. Maybe I should try that gouge thing that's rusting under the bench. :rolleyes:

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Fantastic SAVE on an OUTSTANDING piece!

Simply AWESOME!

Bruce

[John Chandler]

Nice looking platter. You know there are those artists who embed an imperfection to keep the whole thing from being perfect - they believe perfection belongs only to God - so that's what you did - yeah, that's the ticket.

[Ernie Nyvall]

John, your tool rest is supposed to be smooth... no body ever said to grease 'er up.:p

What a save though... nice wood.

[Corey Hallagan]

Wow! Tha't's a striking piece John. Beautiful walnut, nice job.

Corey