I swear, Teacher, the lathe ate my homework...

[bobs64ford352]

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

[FrankAtl]

Oh man! That was looking really good.

Frank

[Mike67]

Ouch. Glad you weren't in the line of fire!

[Arlin Eastman]

Mike67 said:

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Ouch. Glad you weren't in the line of fire!

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+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

[clovishound]

Bandsaw it straight across and have a good cross sectional view of the profile.

[Allen]

Mount all that to some backing, put a frame around it and hang or sell it as art.

Al

[teacher]

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.

[Steve K]

I hate it when that happens!! Glad none of it got stuck in ya

[chips ahoy]

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