On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:03:51 -0500, "Steven Raphael"
wrote:

Some of my failures I have found relatives or friends that like them anyways
so they end up going to them. Some end up as firewood and some I keep for
storage of this and that.


good point!
As we all know, mistakes on our stuff are glow in the dark and
flashing neon to us, but not that noticeable to non-turners...

I was going to reject a box last night because I couldn't get a groove
out of the bottom of a wall without smaller chisels (another story)
but my wife said that it looked like it was "supposed to be there"
like a trim line or something...
she loved it.. wish I would of known that before I spent all that time
trying to get rid of the damn line!

"Kevin" wrote in message
...
Hello all,

I've been turning now for a bit over a year and it has been a most
enjoyable
passtime. Last night I started to clean up the shop a bit and and as in
the
past when cleaning up, decided to hang on to the failed turnings on my
shelves. I really should call them errors rather then failures as I
learned
a bit from each of them. There are the ones where the wood was a bit on
the
punky side and the tennon tore loose; the ones where bark inclusions
magically appeared and decided on their own that I didn't want the bowl to
be as high as I'd planned, not too mention the ones I've just set aside as
the end grain just proved too darn stubborn to just go away.
Does anyone else keep reminders of this sort around their shop? I can
only
hope that the distribution of the number of the bowls when plotted across
time will show a marked bias to the early days and then taper off
assymptotically as time and turning goes on.
Thanks