I ordered a few blanks from http://www.exoticblanks.com some time ago and promptly destroyed the first one I tried to turn, mostly because of inexperience with PR. :redface: Well, my dad owns some better turning tools than I do, so I tried the second blank at his house last weekend. Took my time and managed to turn out something decent. It's far from perfect (the turning that is, the blank itself is fantastic), but I learned a lot in the process. This the Cetacean Seas blank, by the way.