Newbie experiment gone right

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RPE

>Thanks Mike for this!

I've been telling my wife and friends for the last two or three years that you can't turn a bowl or vase with the pith in it. It will just come apart.

"Well, just try it" is what I get all the time!

I tell them I don't need to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of folks out there who say you turn with the pith perpendiclar to the ways and you remove it.

Now it looks like you've blown that theory. I guess I'll have to try it.

I like the way the color comes up from the base to the rim and changes. Looks like a coke float!!

Thanks for showing these.

RP

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David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

>Maybe it's just coincidence here too Mike, but the tung oil I use seems to help with cracking, and even warping - nothing scientific here, but this is just what I think I've been noticing. :o) Great peices by the way, I really like them both.

David

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Brian Roberts

>Good show Mike! Sometimes just do it is the way to go - what's the worst that can happen? I turned things with the pith left in before I had read any turning books or seen any online forums that told me not to try it. I just didn't "know any better" and some of them were just fine.

Actually - at that time the only "computer" I had seen was actually a dumb terminal connected (by laying the phone handset in a "modem" cradle) to a mainframe at the University of Minnesota (IIRC). The only thing the teacher was able to do with it was send a command to the main frame, which would then send back the data to print out (on an OLD teletype printer) a picture of Snoopy kicking a football! Very crude picture, since the "pixels" were actually various full letters, but BOY were we amazed!!

There obviously was no WWW in them days! Any guess as to what year that was?

Nice work!

Brian

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Gary Bills in NC

>Mike,

I really like these. Could you turn them over and take a side veiw of them? That apple has nice grain!

Gary

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David Eaves

>Hi Mike,

That's great news. Glad to hear they are still in one piece. Ignorance in some ways is bliss. I left the pith in a few early pieces. Only one cracked fortunatly and it is still together.

Cheers

David

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keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>I have to guess, the 60's. I remember the same things, but I was a kid then.

keithz

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keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>MIke, I regularly turn endgrain. Sometimes the pith will crack, sometimes not. My very first turning as a footed bowl that is endgrain. It has one crack in it that existed before I turned it. No other cracks have appeared since. I used Minwax Tung Oil Finish on that bowl.

YOur vases look very good. Congrats on the successful endgrain turning.

keithz