Turning Archive

Subject:
If you want to make an omelette, you are gonna...

Steven Antonucci
break some eggs.

I think one of the simple epiphanies in a turner's development is that failure is part of the process. If you stop treating failure as a finality, and start thinking about it as a part of growth, the world changes.

I tell people that even with my skill level, I still probably lose more pieces than most beginning turners do. However, the ones that make it off the lathe are pretty good pieces because I took that extra cut, went a little thinner, or decided that "Good enough, wasn't."

White Man Overbiting until it hurts...

Steve

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