Rescued oops...

[Primvs Aebvtivs]

Firstly, they aren't my "oops's"... My turning mate Jon had a couple of blowouts a few weeks back, and when I went to visit, they were on his firewood pile... Being nosey, I picked them up, and he said "Oh, they're nothing really, I was just faffing". He caught the small one as he was parting off, and the big one was bone dry, and decided to explode mid way through a roughing cut. I've butchered them into shape, and returned them - one for his wife (a flour scoop):-
rescued oops 02.jpg


and one for him, a chair to go with the fairy mushrooms he's fond of making:-
rescued oops 01.jpg

I've also got a footstool project on the go - it's not a turned item, but I'll post it on here when it's done.

[David E Keller]

Nice save on the scoop! The chair seems a bit of a stretch, but it sounds like it's meant to be a bit of fun between mates. Looking forward to seeing the stool.

[Eric Gourieux]

Great saves. Particularly the scoop. What is the material? What is "faffling"?

[Joe Watson]

Creative eye, nice job.
Google says 'faffing' is to "play around, waist time"; never heard of it before, is it an English thing ?

[John Keeton]

Primvs, put a pedestal under that chair and call it a "bar stool" - or "pub stool" for you Brits! Nice saves!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Primvs nice save on those. The scoop looks good.

[Primvs Aebvtivs]

Thanks guys - the "chair" is about 8 inches diameter... "Faffing" in our houses is messing around / playing at making something / wasting time, and yes I do think it's an English thing!
The scoop is beech, and the handle is apple I believe. The scoop part was his oops, the handle - tenon'd into the scoop - was a rejected mushroom that the wife didn't like the look of, so I turned it down to fit a 13mm flat bit hole.