I know that pieces turned with the bark side up are called "natural" edged pieces, so I'm tentatively calling these "unnatural" edges. I've been turning them since last Sunday, mostly out of frustration, after the wife and son split a big old half-rotted stick of soft maple while I was away hauling with the tractor. I came back, saw the curl, and had to count higher than ten before I could say anything. Help with the wood is worth a lot, missing some figured stock maybe not as much.
My answer to the split faces is to make them part of the design. The whiskers on some will be knocked off when I can final sand them. They're almost all too wet right now.
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