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nAILS IN BOWL BLANK

Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman

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I started turning a large,19 inch, maple crotch today. I shaped the outside, started on the insdie,got halfway through to find two 16 penny nails pointing at me from the sidewall of the bowl. Naturally the head of the nails were inside the wall. I tried pulling them out with a pair of vice grips but they just broke off, twice. Had to use my drill and drill all around the nails to get the head loose enough to pull out. I spent an hour nad a half cussing and sweating over this problem. Now I have a one inch hole in the side wall of my beautiful maple bowl.
I guess it is time for some filler or inlace. This could only happen to me. Gary
 
Gary not only you.I hit and then dug out 2 large hooks they use to use for cloths lines in a cherry bowl last year. Also hit a horse shoe the whole thing in a piece of Osage that one I split the wood around it just to let people see it,Thought I had a picture but can't find it.This picture shows the bowl and the hooks from the last one.The black is were the hooks where.Also a small nail too.
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Barbed wire, nails, hinges, cables, spikes, rocks, bullets....
I would rather find rhese with the gouge than the chainsaw or bandsaw,

One walnut crotch hollow form produced three .22 bullets.

This crotch was the first branch of huge walnut cut down to make a park.
Ironic... A friend was given the tree and took the three straight 8 foot logs before the crotch.
So it was 25+ feet up.

The first bullet I found I could feel and hear just inside the opening. I pried it out with a scratch awl. The second my tool stopped cutting and I found a bullet impaled on the tip. The third I found on the ways after blowing out some chips.

Lead cuts nicely.
 
Add to the list the old ceramic wire insulator you still see on older homes. Not one but two in the that tree and the tree grew around them.
 
Was the wood stained blue/black near the nails? Now you know the warning sign. If you don't want to buy a metal detector, try a bigger rare earth magnet around the blue stain.
 
Richard Coers said:
Was the wood stained blue/black near the nails? Now you know the warning sign. If you don't want to buy a metal detector, try a bigger rare earth magnet around the blue stain.
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The blue black stain is good indicator except below an opening where there is black water stain which can look the same and not have any metal.
 
From the position and distance up the tree, it sounds like a squirrel hunter. Missed with three shots???? Obviously not Danny Boone or Sgt. York. So far, I haven't had anything like this............yet.
 
John Torchick said:
From the position and distance up the tree, it sounds like a squirrel hunter. Missed with three shots???? Obviously not Danny Boone or Sgt. York. So far, I haven't had anything like this............yet.
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Are squirrel hunters using nail guns now? Original post said 3 each 16 penny nails with heads.
 
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