On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:39:17 -0700
graham wrote:

I started to turn a salad bowl in 20 years old elm. I had almost
finished hollowing and while I was sharpening the gouge, I heard an
ominous sound. There was a stress crack that stretched from the rim
almost to the base. I eventually bandsawed the crack and intend filling
it with a brightly coloured resin.

have seen furniture with the brightly colored resin embedded in the
cracks

they just filled in the natural cracks and splits then surface planed
the whole thing and it looked good

will you put it back on the lathe to turn the resin

do not breathe that stuff

i hesitate whenever i introduce toxic synthetic materials into the
sawdust because i use the sawdust with mulch


Otherwise, my neighbour happily accepts the dry offcuts and failures.

having one close by is just as good