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Splitsville or bust?

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Splitsville or bust?

#1

Splitsville or bust?

Mike-in-Michigan(Richland, that is)

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When Good Bowls Go Bad!!

Well at least the walls were looking very even!!! :)

This is what happens when you make the spigot to small for your old nova chuck that you can't find the smaller jaws for .. but you have to use it on your new Jet Mini "stealth gloat" because your Vic 120 that is for your Nova 3k is wrong spindle size.. So now you have to cut a recess for an expansion holding and the sucker just splits while you are hollowing it out .. launched quick too -- bounced off the wall with a nice sharp crack!!

What a waste of nice mesquite ....






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Dane Lance

>No waste....just use it in the grill! =)

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Sean Troy

>There was an excellent post a couple of months ago where the same ting happened and the person cleaned up the split and added a new peice of contrasting wood and then returned to final demensions. It looked great and he gave a blow by blow on how he did it, I just cant remember who it was. Try a search on this forum towards the end of last year for repairing a bowl or something along those lines. It was great information. good luck, Sean

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JamieDonaldson

>This is a good example of the advantage of using compression on a tenon rather the expansion method of holding wood with a chuck.Glad you weren't in the flight path!

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Ric Erkes

>The pics are now on my web site. Click on the tips link/picture at the bottom and then scroll down to the broken bowl pictures.

It was a fair amount of work, but worth it if the wood is worth saving.


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#6

You Can Salvage It

John McAtee - Shrewsbury, MA

>Mike, you can probably salvage the bowl and, in the process, give it an interesting feature. As others have suggested, the secret is inserting one or more pieces of contrasting wood in the break. The easiest way to do that is to flatten each half on a disc sander, with a router or on a drill press (with jig and Safe-T Planer), trace the insert(s), glue up, strengthen the foot and re-turn. IMHO, it looks too good to toss or burn.

Good luck,

John (www.johnsturn.com)

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John F.

>plane them smooth and glue a piece of veneer between?

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Ric Erkes

>One of the complications of just sanding or planing the edges and sticking a filler piece in is you need to match up the curves of the original bowl. In otherwords, the filler has to be the same thickness as the amount of wood that is removed. If it is not, when you re-turn it, no telling what side thickness the gouge will balance the bowl back out at.

That is why I did it the way I did it. There may be an easier method, but it is a technique I try not to practice very often.

Ric

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