I was cutting an inch or two off a pecan bowl blank and couldn't bring myself to throw the disk away so I turned it. I set my snack on it last night. I let the plate dry in the open air and there was little or no distortion in the white part, but the brown parts shrank a lot. Obviously I didn't put much time or effort into the plate since I was just playing around but now I wish that I had. I'll be keeping a close eye in the future for another disk with a twig coming off it like this one has.
Just think, I got the lathe thinking LOML would like it more and that I really wouldn't use it too much. So much for the slippery slope, this was more like a diving board!