Michael McCoy
12-16-2007, 7:47 PM
I've just recently started making bowls and just in the last couple of projects got where I wasn't launching to many blanks at a steady pace. This bowl turned out ok but it almost never got finished. I had just finished roughing the blank for the bowl in these pics and had walked away to check on another project that was drying...... Got back to the lathe and noticed that I had some tool marks that wouldn't take but a second to fix. Murphy was alive and well and about two seconds into the cut, I got my head where it doesn't belong and got a catch that launched this thing right out of the Cole jaws. I normally don't have my dust collection fixture mounted unless I'm sanding but of course this time I did. I was simply amazed how a piece of spinning wood could come out of a chuck, hit a dust collection fixture, do a 180 and come right back at my nose all in about 3 micro seconds. I got back at the lathe though since I left some of the blood on the rail so it can get a bit rusty. :)
No major harm done other than some scraped skin but it got my attention. This bowl is the first time I've tried something other than a basic bowl shape. There are some flaws but it was fun to make.
No major harm done other than some scraped skin but it got my attention. This bowl is the first time I've tried something other than a basic bowl shape. There are some flaws but it was fun to make.