steven carter
05-04-2007, 10:25 AM
I was roughing out green oak bowl about 10" x 5" making the final cuts on the inside, when the bowl blew up. It split almost right through the center of the bowl. Half of the bowl hit me in the left shoulder - ouch! It was sore for a couple of weeks but OK now. My workshop is in part of my garage that has a drywall ceiling. A couple of days later, after a windy night, I found some stuff on the floor, that I couldn't identify - it wasn't wood. Finally figured it out when I looked up and saw a hole in the ceiling and some blown insulation. I guess my shoulder wasn't the only thing hit by the flying bowl. The bowl looked like one of the bowls in my Raffan book where he cuts it in half to see how even the walls are. Actually I was pretty even. Not wanting to waste the bowl, I glued it back together with carpenters glue and thought LOML could use it as a flower pot. It seems pretty sturdy, I wonder if it would be save to put it back on the lathe to sand a little. It seems to have dried pretty well. Anyone ever glue one that was completely apart and then re mount? Or am I just asking to be hit with oak again?