Bam!

[Richard Gibson]

Beautiful blank... Top completed...bottom almost finished... BAM! Blow that sucker out pieces can't be found so no repair possible. I HATE doing that. (No comments needed, just needed to vent.)

 

[SteveG]

I found the pieces under MY lathe :frown:

 

[Xander]

been there done that. Mine was a one piece blank for a sierra, had it all done .. just did a light pass to smooth off and... BAM. Horrible feeling. Found part of it but not all, it was a segmented blank that took days to glue up.

 

[triw51]

I have done that with some nice mesquite burl almost finished and then a big chunk is gone. I feel your pain

 

[carverken]

Venting is a necessary part of the process. Anyone that says that this has never happened to them is either a liar or has not been turning for very long. Please feel your pain being shared, and keep at it.
K

 

[WWAtty]

Been there myself more times than I care to remember. And I use a DC hood on my lathe, so any pieces that go ballistic are gone forever. I always buy extra tubes so I can redo when I screw up, but it's small consolation when a beautiful (and usually expensive) blank goes to pieces. The Plan B blank is never as nice as the Plan A one I lost.

 

[glen r]

Why is it that the cheap blanks rarely go BAM but get an expensive one and it seems the odds of having it go BAM go up. It must be that we are so extra careful when doing an expensive blank that we overdo things. IMHO

 

[Haynie]

I would rather it go BAM. At least I could imagine that there was a fault with the blank. What I hate is the final super light pass with the skew and zzzzztttt. It catches and cuts way past the bushings. That is my fault. Can't blame it on anything else.

 

[Brooks803]

Sorry to hear this Richard!