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I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - bobs64ford352 - 09-09-2015
Turning club tonight and the challenge was to bring something with a cover. The first two shots were from last night and fairly early in the turning. I took the picture just in case something happened...well I probably jinxed myself. I was 99% done, everything was done including applying the finish except for making the base and you can see I didn't have much left to do of that. My last step was taping it to the bowl plate and removing the tail stock for access. Where I %^&*ed up was not turning the speed down. I pulled the TS out of the way and everything was good, for about .02 seconds and while I was lowering the TS to the ground the lathe started vibrating wildly and I could hear the tape flapping. I got the lathe turned off and started searching for the shrapnel
.I'm pretty bummed out I didn't think to turn the speed down.
Bob
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - FrankAtl - 09-09-2015
Oh man! That was looking really good.
Frank
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - Mike67 - 09-09-2015
Ouch. Glad you weren't in the line of fire!
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - clovishound - 09-09-2015
Bandsaw it straight across and have a good cross sectional view of the profile.
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - Allen - 09-09-2015
Mount all that to some backing, put a frame around it and hang or sell it as art.
Al
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - teacher - 09-09-2015
Don't worry, your not by yourself! I just did the same thing with the vase/weedpot i posted earlier. Didn't tear things up as much as yours, but was able to shape it a little different. Just waiting for finish to dry on it.
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - Steve K - 09-09-2015
I hate it when that happens!! Glad none of it got stuck in ya
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - chips ahoy - 09-09-2015
Glad you didn't get injured, I always remember Neal Addy's advice. never ever under any circumstances make that last cut. I would glue it all back together and put it in a prominent shop space. You are not alone.
Mel
Re: I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework... - Arlin Eastman - 09-09-2015
Mike67 said:
Ouch. Glad you weren't in the line of fire!
+1 on what Mike said.
To me it looked really thick on the sides and thinner towards the bottom so maybe that helped it as well.
Arlin