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charlie b

wrote:

Crap shoot ? So what's the verdict ??

Welllllll - I went with the max diameter, which put
the pith side center right in the middle of the Knot
with the soft pith and the splits radiating out
from it. As suspected, that knot ran at an angle
and was gone before I got to the inside bottom of
the bowl.

I had a look at the pic's, but any pic' and even more so on ABPW they
don't tell the whole story.

The higher resolution pictures provided a bit more info.
Scaled everything down and compressed quite a bit to
get the file size down. What I was trying to show was
a method to better understand what is probably below
the surface in order to a) avoid wasting time on a chunk
of wood that, in fact, holds little promise OR a chunk of
wood which, at first glance, looks like a Tosser but may
be a diamond in the rough and b) better plan where to
place the centers to avoid problems and get the best
out of a blank.

On this particulate piece of wood, there's not much that should be of
any worry to you, the splits on the pith side very probably are turned
away when going in from the pith side, and the small twig knots,( as
what I think they are, going by what the pic' shows) on the outside
might be just on the outer layer of the blank and if not they are small
enough to add interest but not big enough so that they would tear the
wood apart, all this just MO.

That's pretty much how things turned out. The potential
problem knot was angled enough to not make it to the bottom
of the inside of the bowl. BUT it did leave lighter grain in
the middle of darker wood in the bottom of the bowl.

There were clusters of twig knots which don't detract - nor add
- much to the piece.

Snip

Most always, one can tell if there are some probable problems in store
or possible, just by looking, but like a lot of things, experience does
help in getting X-ray vision so to speak, the bark hides a lot, but
also reveals in it's way of growing, and it all ads up to what really
(for me at least) makes turning such an interesting hobby, there's
always that infinite of variations in the wood, I just love it.

Experience takes time. Focused expeience takes a little less time.
By paying attention to the relationship between what’s on the
inside and outside of the raw candidate blank I’m going at it a
little
more methodically. Would be interesting to CAT Scan candidates.

Have fun and take care

That’s why I do it and how I try to do it. So far I’m leaving
the shop with all the body parts and most of the blood I
entered with.

charlie b

ps - posted pic of finished bowl from the “dissected candidate”