Salvage pieces

[Karl Best]

Yesterday I was starting work on my last piece of rough turned spalted maple, which would be a 10" bowl, when the bowl blew up. It wasn't a catch, just a structural failure. After a curse word or two I surveyed the damage; one piece was about half the bowl, then another couple smaller pieces. I didn't want to trash these these; there was still a lot of thickness, so why not make something out of the scraps? I know better than to waste time on a lost cause, but it was my last piece of spalted. So, an hour and a half later I had these three; they're round and have feet. Don't know what to call them or use them for, but they're cute anyway.

Has anyone else had good success in salvaging a lost cause?

 

[John Grace]

Re-assemble them in some fashion and then do a resin poor...I think you'll like the results.

 

[Barry Larson]

Yesterday I was starting work on my last piece of rough turned spalted maple, which would be a 10" bowl, when the bowl blew up. It wasn't a catch, just a structural failure. After a curse word or two I surveyed the damage; one piece was about half the bowl, then another couple smaller pieces. I didn't want to trash these these; there was still a lot of thickness, so why not make something out of the scraps? I know better than to waste time on a lost cause, but it was my last piece of spalted. So, an hour and a half later I had these three; they're round and have feet. Don't know what to call them or use them for, but they're cute anyway.

Has anyone else had good success in salvaging a lost cause?

I like them! Nice save. They look like chip bowls to me - waaaay to small for popcorn!
Cheers.
Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada eh!

 

[Alan Weinberg]

I’ve put back together with pewa and bars. If you can find all the pieces. Here’s a recent one that split in half. 14 bars and back together.

 

[Richard Coers]

I have way too many great bowls sitting around, I sure don't need to spend a couple days to reconstruct one.

 

[Java DeLaura]

I’ve put back together with pewa and bars. If you can find all the pieces. Here’s a recent one that split in half. 14 bars and back together. View attachment 75769

Love this!

 

[Alan Weinberg]

I have way too many great bowls sitting around, I sure don't need to spend a couple days to reconstruct one.

Didn’t take that long and was great practice w inserts and epoxy!
But I understand. Doubt I’d do it again.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

I had one blow up in a demo. Fortunately had another bowl ready to complete the demo. Just did not want to waste a nice piece of cherry so I glued it together and then used bandsaw to cut out the glue line . Then glued in a piece of mahogany and returned it , plus some embellishments woodburning and pencil colors but is still a work in progress, maybe finish it next year.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

One of my heavily-incised decorative platters shattered (trying to turn the circular ribs in the back thinner than the wood could tolerate). I took two sections and mounted them above a slab of wood using sate skewers as a sculptural piece. (Just realized this is a poor photo, as the top piece is friction-fitted to the skewer and it is rotated slightly)