[Woodworkers] Red Oak Bowl

[gcw804 at aol.com]

I volunteer with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity on the construction side and we have a volunteer of the year award.
Last year because of Covid we didn't have our annual farm to table dinner. So this year we are planing on awarding a gift to two people, one for last year and one for this year.
One of the long time volunteers that died a few years ago was a great bowl turner so they have named the award after him (Steve Thompson).
After his sudden death, his wife gave me the opportunity to take as many bowl blanks that I wanted, which without being greedy, I took probably 10. 
These blanks went back to 2014 -2015 so they are really, really dry and some have major cracks. 
I was turning a Spalted Red Oak bowl this afternoon, while I had finished the depth and was working on thinning out the sides, suddenly it became a UFO. .
I had thought 30 minutes before that I should probably stop and fill the cracks with epoxy and let it cure for a couple of days. But, no in my infinite wisdom, I figured I would play the odds and finish it up and then fill the cracks.
I saw a T-shirt yesterday that said my last words would be: Well shit, that didn't work out so well.
As I was picking up the pieces, I thought exactly the same thing.
Lol
Gary Williams



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