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Thread: Ah, yes. The makings of a beautiful bowl...

  1. 01-05-2008, 8:08 PM #1
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    Ah, yes. The makings of a beautiful bowl...

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    AND THEN.......


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    Stupid.... idiot.... bowl gouge! You cheap piece of junk! Or perhaps it was my sharpening skills....


    WELL, ANOTHER ONE FOR THE FIREPLACE!
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  3. 01-05-2008, 8:12 PM #2
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    Ben - as long as you are OK it was just a learning experience! Bowls do have a tendency to self-destruct at times. Just grab another piece of wood and try again!
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    Ben....hold your bowl gouge up and I"ll help you



    Bad gouge ......bad..bad...bowl gouge!

    I'm working on a crude NE bowl of sorts. I had tear out in one area....decided I'd try a shear cut. Worked like a champ. Then I got cute thought I'd go ahead and try the shear cut to form the final foot shape....Bad idea....bad bowl gouge.....Well..maybe a bad bowl gouge driver.....
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  5. 01-05-2008, 9:42 PM #4
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    Bowl

    Now you guys are artist --put a small hook on it and place a picture of a duck or something in the center of it with the broken side down and hang it on the wall
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  6. 01-05-2008, 9:47 PM #5
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    Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Flying Saucers... er.. uh... bowls!
    You have to just get back on the horse, Ben... can't let that stop you.
    Glad it missed you.
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    Ben,

    Follow CW's suggestion. Finish sand it (off the lathe of course), shoot it with many coats of lacquer, mount it on a brass rod and a base. Call it "trashed art", "woodturner's lament", "broken dreams", or "that's life" and get it into an avante garde gallery. Might even scorch the broken edges a bit, maybe pyrography to accentuate them.

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  8. 01-05-2008, 10:17 PM #7
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    I vote burn it. But hey it was a great story and i loved the pics If my brad. pear keeps on i'm gonna burn it too..................
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  9. 01-06-2008, 12:13 AM #8
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    But where is the broke off piece? The one I snapped the other day.. I have not found the break off yet.
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  10. 01-06-2008, 8:18 AM #9
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    At least you got your blown up bowl over with for the year. You only get one of those per year, right .
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  11. 01-06-2008, 9:24 AM #10
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    1- I wish I only got one per year, Paul.
    2- CW, that's what my dad said- call it "modern art" and hang it up!
    3- David, I'll probably throw it into the fire today.
    4- Jon, I can't really find the broke off pieces, they probably vaporized.

    Oh, well. Got lots more dogwood where that came from.
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  12. 01-06-2008, 10:27 AM #11
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    Boy can I feel your pain Ben!
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