When I first got my lathe, Peter Brown (of Shop Time) sent me a box of interesting scrap wood to practice on. The one that caught my eye was a big chunk of live-edge (the bark still attached) walnut. This is the story of how I nearly ruined it.
While squaring up the blank on the bandsaw, I could see that there were some cracks running through it.
I originally did not think that this would be a problem. I have turned flawed pieces of wood before and can usually work around the problem areas. This time though, the whole thing exploded on the lathe while I was still roughing out the shape.Boom. If you have never had a piece of wood spinning at 3,000…
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