Try to make the inside smaller than the outside.
Personally, I prefer "Artisanal Firewood" - you can charge more
I have both those T-shirts as well !
And there shouldn't be an apostrophe.
and a bonus apostrophe
Agree. Also, I save all my crappy wood that is at least relatively safe (or can be glued up or whatever) for practice pieces - Even small bits are useful to practice finial turning among other things.
I won't turn crappy wood. But my definition of "crappy" is not what John Jordan's was.
To your no mistakes quote. I told a friend of mine 10 years or so ago when I started turning that "I don't make mistakes those pieces are designer firewood"
, but somedays it seems that 50% is just sanding 
To follow up on that: I recently finished this piece - It isn't all that pretty but they sell at farmers market for 10 bucks a pop all day long.. This one was a leftover end of a small 5 inch walnut log that had a bunch of cracks and checking - I chucked it up anyway, as it had some interesting grain - But after turning it round and then turning away the cracks and checking, this is about all I had left to work with - More for my own skills practice and something to do while I didn't have any other projects in mind... to make the lid I then dug out a small piece of punky maple I had thrown in my burn bin - Also crappy wood - I tossed it cause it was just so punky I didn't think I could do much with it, but it worked out for making a lid..
